Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Desert" stands out as a document of our age. It might well prove a reference book to future theorists who attempt to understand the inner workings of the Twentieth Century mind. Priestley's smoothly flowing style and his calm and unhurried manner make this book more of a friendly chat that a formal discourse on life and contemporary topics. As we turn the last pages, we feel that we have come to know J. B. Priestley better than Dr. Johnson, perhaps better even, than our own friends. This book is more than an "Excursion into Autobiography", it is the epitome...
...kindling wood in the fire place in the Lowell House Common Room had been put to a match last evening when Mr. Lewis Douglas talked to the Council of Government Concentrators on recent developments in the national economy, a new meaning might have been developed for the term "fireside chat". For a meeting of minds of a high intellectual caliber on a field of common interest, where ideas are exchanged freely and no one attempts to play ringleader or bully recalcitrant thinkers into jumping through the hoops of his own individual dogma, is a refreshing change from the drama...
Saturday's clever Vagabond on the fireside chat of Henry II that led so unfortunately to the assassination of Thomas a Becket suggests an interpretation of the analogy to Roosevelt's court reforms that was perhaps not quite the one the Vagabond had in mind. I do not have enough of his facile subtlety to maintain the anonymity of his analogy, so I hope I will be excused if I have to treat mine more explicitly...
...befits the beginning of a sequel, the end of the first scene found the protagonist involved in new difficulties. His final speech, a sober fireside chat appealing to the nation on behalf of his Supreme Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets...
...good of you my friends to come this night to my fireside. Like a very father to his family I want to hold with you a fireside chat." The company looks at him anxiously. It is clear he is the most popular of men. "You have heard much of late of the sad plight of my country, of my struggles against that grasping man, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who aims to set himself up as the ruler of this land, yea, against the very government itself...