Word: chatterer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ritz. But literary style can't be photographed, and in other respects the novel is sort of a mess. The plot is often gappy and sometimes sappy; the characters are superficially silly and fundamentally unreal. The intellectual apparatus of the tale-a compendium of cocktail party chatter about psychiatry-is almost pathetic. What's more, in the film the 18-to-29-year-old heroine is played by 42-year-old Jennifer Jones...
...Manhattan-based housewife with a Midwestern upbringing, quotes an old hand on an old problem: "Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." The author, Mrs. Purtell points out with undisguised glee, is Socrates, and the time some 2,400 years...
...whole package of in-group chatter concludes with a provocative (that word, generally a euphemism, applies in this case) request that "we" (a pronoun Mr. Kofsky uses very offensively) ought to like Ray Charles more than Sonny Terry, because he's more authentic. His two points, that white intellectuals have created for themselves a dreamy and gratifying image of the nonviolent Negro, and have foolishly rejected the beat protest, are made arrogantly. His snottiness would indeed be unbearable if one couldn't detect an undercurrect of self-disgust in Kofsky himself...
...photo finish" -he follows a general rule of thumb: three lbs. of weight equals one length in a mile race. From his performance charts (meticulously maintained by a trained, fulltime staff of nine), his own turf experience (he began working at tracks when he was 19) and reliable paddock chatter, Trotter gets the information he needs to assign weights: the ability of the horse to carry weight, the quality of its stable, the canniness of its trainer, the track's condition...
...they set up battery-powered transmitters or emergency generators a few weeks ago, and, sitting by their sets for a grueling 24 hours, they tried to see who could establish the largest number of contacts with other stations. (Results are now being tabulated.) This time there was no idle chatter between the competitors; the hams merely exchanged their call letters, location, time of the contact, and then signed off to look for another station...