Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

And the entirety of the natural world is party to the action.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

The present Republican leadership as practiced by Mundt, Goldwater, Bridges, Dirksen, et al, is repeating the errors of the party leadership of the 1930s.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

The only fact that holds any weight in the article is the result of the tea party.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.

Here is the world of the chauffeured limousine and the gossip reporter, of caviar on stale crackers and the warm martini, of the poseur, the spy, the party crasher, and the patriot, of the rented tails, the double cross, and the tired Lothario.

You've been away from home for the New Year festivities, but now the party is over and you come home.

He is publicly on record as believing Mr. De Sapio should be replaced for the good of the party.

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

Reports are that it is more than probable that the four congressmen from Mississippi who did not support the party ticket will be stripped of the usual patronage which flows to congressmen.

The party is to raise money for the Old Town Art center and to plant more crabapple trees along the streets of Old Town.

It is just bad luck that we are having the party in a month with no R's, so no oysters.

The gala is the Thrift Shop's annual bundle party and, as all Thrift Shop friends know, that means the admission is a bundle of used clothing in good condition, contributions of household equipment, bric-a-brac and such to stock the shelves at the shop's headquarters at 1213 Walnut St..

Sometimes the group criticized Gianfranco Fini for his liberal views on abortion, artificial insemination and stem-cell research, which led some notable ex-DC members as Publio Fiori to leave the party.

A number of internal groups flourished within the new party, the most notable of which was the Tawney Society ( mirroring the function of the Fabian Society within the Labour Party ).

The relatively peaceful Utah War ensued from 1857 to 1858, in which the most notable instance of violence was the Mountain Meadows massacre, when leaders of a local Mormon militia ordered the killing of a civilian emigrant party that was traveling through Utah during the escalating tensions.

Prominent MPs from this wing of the party include Andrew Rosindell, Nadine Dorries and Edward Leigh — the latter a prominent Roman Catholic, notable in a faction marked out by its support for the established Church of England.

The Christian right has been a notable force in both the Republican party and American politics since the late 1970s, when Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell and other Christian leaders began to urge conservative Christians to involve themselves in the political process.

His actions alienated the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ) socialist party, from which he definitively broke in his notable reply in the Chamber to Jean Jaurès, leader of the SFIO, in June 1906.

As such, he was a notable proponent of an unlimited free market economy and took a leading part in drafting a new party programme.

Another notable cliffhanger was the " Moldavian Massacre " on Dynasty in 1985, which fueled speculation throughout the summer months regarding who lived or died when almost all the characters attended a wedding in the country of Moldavia, only to have revolutionaries topple the government and machine-gun the entire wedding party.

The small Quaker party, including its most notable passenger, Jonathan Dickinson, encountered and received aid from the Jove Indians.

In several notable cases, this has led to situations in which both parties have run candidates, but close to the election the party with the less popular candidate unofficially dropped out of the race.

The City of Sherman was a party in a notable Texas Supreme Court case, City of Sherman v. Henry, 928 S. W. 2d 464 ( Tex.

Dissidents were few, perhaps the most notable being Eric Heffer the future Labour MP who left the party in the late 1940s, and were easily dealt with.

The Free Soil Party was a notable third party.

Under the leadership of Thurlow Weed, an anti-Masonic and anti-Andrew Jackson ( Jackson was a Mason ) movement grew to become the political party and made the ballot for the presidency in 1828, while gaining the support of such notable politicians as William H. Seward.

The party is also divided on the issue of deepening European integration, and contains a notable eurosceptic faction based on its more rural interests.

In addition to a few commercial strips with popular and lively restaurants, bars, villas and good crafts / furniture shops, there are a few notable establishments: Ku Dé Ta, which is a bar / restaurant with a cult following based on its beach side / semi-resort atmosphere that has earned it the title of number one party spot in various magazines, and Oberoi, which is an expensive hotel with a worldwide reputation.

From the establishment of Vort Arbeide in 1884, the party had a growing and notable organisation of newspapers and other press outlets.

Schlesinger also directed a notable party political broadcast for the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom general election of 1992 which featured Prime Minister John Major returning to Brixton in south London, where he had spent his teenage years, which highlighted his humble background, atypical for a Conservative politician.

Low-level Carlists, with the notable exception of those in Navarre, generally distanced themselves from the workings of the new party and in many cases never joined at all.

Other notable members of the party included Jean Haudry, Pierre Vial, Jean-Claude Bardet, Xavier Guillemot, Christian Bouchet and Maxime Brunerie.

: Would that a little part survived of the writers from whom Athenaeus quotes, scattered here and there, notable, startling or amusing sayings, and whets the appetite of his eager reader ..... Mimes, fools, parasites, lute-girls are bearable and not inappropriate amusement for a drinking party.

Kreisky was notable for his apologetic approach to former Nazi party members and contemporary far-right Austrian politicians.

The Art Ensemble is notable for its integration of musical styles spanning jazz's entire history and for their multi-instrumentalism, especially the use of what they termed " little instruments " in addition to the traditional jazz lineup ; " little instruments " can include bicycle horns, bells, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and a vast array of percussion instruments ( including found objects ).

Although owned by the Harveys, a notable Liberal family, Smith claimed the director Charles Harvey knew nothing of the job application by the young man who had lost his job for his public speech in favour of Harvey's Liberal party candidature.

The party has had notable links with the progressive music milieu with avant-garde composers such as the late Cornelius Cardew