Word: blathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and political clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the turbulent story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...
...name. This is a theater group that strives to bare the roots of American experience, to record the resonances of the American locale. The strength of its current Hogan's Goat is its evocation of Irish character, customs and political power in the Brooklyn of 1890. Beneath the blather and the brogue, it is as if a well of ethnic memory had been tapped, and the making and unmaking of an American cascades turbulently across the stage...
Stone started his weekly in 1952, not a good year for independent reporting. It had a little piggy-bank launching--$7000 and a mailing list of 5500 "elderly radicals"--but mushroomed as the blather of the McCarthy years subsided and people grew less frightened. Today it boasts 22,000 readers -not an eye-popping figure, but Stone has no illusions about reaching a wide audience...
Biographical Blather. Rowse is a noted writer of Elizabethan history and one of the few historians ever to invade what has clearly been marked out as literary terrain. This, plus the fact that 1964 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, allowed some small room for hope-not that his book would offer new material (there has been none discovered since 1931), but that it would somehow be intriguing and different. Alas, Rowse is no further along than his second chapter before it becomes clear that he is going to bog down in much of the traditional blather...
What means this blather, Governor? What are we to make of it? Surely no one opposes children, churches, average Americans, and life--but does merely invoking such vivid images prove that the Constitution is a creature of the states, the point the learned speaker was attempting to make...