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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.
Source: Once around the Sun, 1951.
-- Brooks Atkinson, (Nov 28 1894-1984), US drama critic, journalist; He wrote Once around the Sun, 1951.