Word: blather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer. 252 pages. Viking. $7.95. "Compassion's like masturbation. Doesn't do anybody else any harm and if it makes you feel any better ..." If Mehring were simply the small-Boer caricature suggested by such blather, The Conservationist would be a cheap shot indeed. Instead, South African Author Nadine Gordimer, 51, makes him a human and nuanced advocate of the very thing her ten previous books opposed: the white-supremacist policy of apartheid...
...blather about 'responsibility' to keep secrets instead of exploding abuses has begun to creep back into the press parlance," he wrote, citing "the old pre-Watergate, pre-Vietnam ideals of partnership with government...of a camaraderie of secrets shared by this peerage but kept from the public...
Stories written about bars become tiresome after a while. The faces, the cigarette smoke, the chatter and chintzy music tend to blend into an indistinct, sickly blather. And the same, hopefully, will happen with what has become the "in" bar in Washington, the White House. Then, perhaps, the American public will learn what the new president is really like...
...interesting to recall the battles of the past, as Nixon does so well and so frequently, and it's reassuring to know once and for all that in the privacy of his own home, the president is just like folks, talking about saving his own hide without his accustomed blather about peace with honor or national security...
Chile: with poems and guns is not a complete film. For example, it does not sufficiently explore the relation of UD to the Christian Democrats or disagreements with UP. What it does do, vividly, is establish a perspective on the blather which North Americans have heard these last three years about Allende, the Chilean working class, and the prospects for socialism. It relates Chile's experience to the experience of U.S. workers and is particularly sensitive to problems of racism, sexism, and the exploitation of children. What shines through the horror, the anger and frustration is the Chilean people...