Word: blathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great literature, secular and religious, is often the basis for blather...
...Francisco's Beatland for material for a film. Latest beatnik hit, published last month: a murky outpouring called Second April ("O man, thee is onion-constructed in hot gabardine"), by a scraggly bard named Bob Kaufman-2,500 copies already in print. Why the popularity? The beat blather certainly is not literature. But it can be amusing, and at its best, more fun to recite in the bathtub than anything since Vachel Lindsay's The Congo. Sample from Bomb (4,000 copies in print), by Gregory Corso, 28, a curly-haired youngster whose earlier Gasoline (95?) has gone...
...full columns in your Aug. 6 issue of blather about Dems and Catholics and the prospects of combination of them to "help muffle the issue"? The issue in 1952 was Korea and the Dems' sad handling of that situation. If "softness toward Communism" can be construed to mean softheadedness toward Korea, your speculation on the chances of a Roman Catholic Veep helping the Dems win in '56 could be justified only if Father Rigney were a candidate. With Red Chinese ranging in Burma, hardy Tibetans battling Mao's tanks with muskets, and a powder-keg "peace...
Enclosed is a rival architect's rendition of the proposed plans for the redecoration of Memorial Hall. The completion of such a phantasmag--or rather, inspired edifice should soon drive Messrs. Sheply, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot out of business. Drools, Glutnick, Blather & Klopson, Architects at Large. (M. Biddle, Acting Undersecretary...
Saint Tom Driberg's pious blather-which all but claims Jesus Christ as the founder of the British Labor Party-is, of course, so farfetched and improbable as to be beyond the reach of criticism . . . What strikes me is the omission, in his article, of the name of Tito, the avowed atheist and persecutor of the Christian Church, while it includes the name of Catholic Franco. When one recalls Britain's ardent wooing of Tito, the omission may seem to be less than accidental...