Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their children, "they talked of his father's funeral, of the sale of the old house, of the problems of squatters, of property rights and the property market, of inheritance, and wills, and money, and North Sea Oil, of leaseholds and freeholds, of solicitors and stamp duty." Chatter like that is enough to give solipsism a good name. Yet such lapses are the accidental by-products of an interesting and impressive experiment. A champion and biographer of Arnold Bennett, Drabble has produced an argumentative novel very much in the oratorical mold favored by Bennett and his contemporaries. When...
Silber had attacked aspects of the station's programming in a letter calling for "an end to mindless and illiterate chatter," and to the advocacy of "quack psychotherapy," and any form of drug abuse...
...kind of coverage that the professionals try to resist is glaringly visible in dozens of local TV news shows-sensationalism, indifference to serious news, schlocky personality chatter, on-camera exploitation of people caught in tragic situations, all mixed with relentless upbeat jollity. Such coverage also repels Roone Arledge, who made ABC first in sports coverage and has now been given the assignment to do the same with ABC News. But he is also fascinated. He is not a man to leave ABC a poor third in news ratings...
...games are often ones you can sleep through, even with ABC'S dazzling replays, multiple cameras and split screens, but it is hard to sleep through the chatter too. Some of this same barrage is now evident on ABC Evening News, though Arledge is quick to plead that he is still experimenting. The direction seems apparent enough. ABC, not surrendering news "responsibility" in other ways, may well end up the most revved-up, visually busy network news show. The other two networks can specialize instead, if they prefer, in coherence and proportion. But Arledge may be on to something...
Beyond all this high-level and often informal chatter, there is a formal policy machinery that is also put to full use. Under Vance, the State Department bureaucracy is far more a part of the action than it was under either Secretary of State William Rogers or Kissinger. Vance asks not only Warnke to sit in whenever he discusses arms control with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, but Leslie Gelb, who heads the department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, is also deeply involved in SALT. No steps in Carter's troop-reduction plans for Korea are taken without...