Word: chattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...removing the characters from an author's imaginary world to the imaginary, but generally far less plausible, world of the critic, who then proceeds to examine these displaced characters as if they were 'real people.'" He refused to deal in such "dreadful things as trends," or offer traditional chatter about themes and schools of literature. Instead, he performed brilliant, instant autopsies on each book, taking it apart and flinging the pieces on the table, then reassembling them so that students for the first time grasped how a book is constructed. Once summing up the Soviet novel of social realism...
...crowd had recovered from the initial shock and was buzzing with excited chatter...
There were moments, however, amid the silences, grunts and inconsequential chatter of the tapes, that elicited happy looks from Sirhan's defenders. When talk somehow turned to jigsaw puzzles, Sirhan was heard to remark impatiently: "If I can't do it fast enough-if I can't match the whole picture-I give up." To Dr. Martin Schorr, a San Diego psychologist, much of Sirhan's taped prattle reinforced his own diagnosis of acute mental illness. Schorr subjected Sirhan to batteries of psychiatric tests, which showed, he contended, hypomania and paranoia. As for hypomania, "There...
Several seconds passed before his voice penetrated the chatter of the typewriter. When Mildred looked up, she was looking into Nathan's serious eyes. Now, she though...
...Jack Colvin-a sort of Skid Row Mike Nichols and Elaine May. The singers were Buddy Greco and Johnny Janis. Janis made history of sorts by being the first singer to perform at the Chicago Playboy Club, an honor from which he has never quite recovered. For cerebral chatter, there was Columnist Max Lerner, an old friend of Hef s. The conversation turned out badly. For one thing, Hef's cue-card questions ("Max, what about the sexual revolution Jack and Yvonne just illustrated for us . . . ? You've been calling for it for years. How do you like...