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Letter "T" » The Cocktail Party
«Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is»
«The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.»
Author: Brooks Atkinson
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cocktail party, en masse, hurriedly, masse, obligations, overture, The Cocktail Party, whoring
«The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil»
«Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.»
Author: Harold Macmillan
| Keywords:
cocktail party, geriatric, memorial, services, The Cocktail Party
«The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.»
Author: Renata Adler
| Keywords:
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«I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
cocktail, cocktails, cocktail party, misremember, nurture, The Cocktail Party
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