Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...things of this world, and in the corrupting diversions of the television set. They are slaves to images, false ones of happiness and affluence. But even true images are sinful imitations of God, who can alone create. Relief at escaping their students unscathed for another day makes the teachers' chatter of farewell in the halls and on the parking lot too loud, like the rising excitement of drunks. The teachers revel when they are away from the school. Some have the pink lids and bad breaths and puffy bodies of those who habitually drink too much. Some get divorces; some...
Public fisticuffs come fast and furious on the web, and there is no better example than the sudden outburst of chatter about John McCain's speech at the commencement ceremonies of The New School. During his address to students of the liberal New York City institution last week, McCain was booed and jeered by some of the students. He was given a gentler rebuke from the podium by one of the student speakers, Jean Rohe, who said McCain's support for the Iraq war "does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded." McCain himself seemed unfazed...
There was sophomore Matt Vance, who backed up his early-season chatter by becoming the league’s best stolen-base threat...
...members of In Vino Veritas, it was business as usual.“Okay, guys, we’re going to get started,” third-year law student Tom Brown, who led the wine-tasting that evening, says, clinking together two tall water bottles. Background chatter died out as the members, still students in the truest Harvard sense, folded hands in laps and faced forward, listening attentively to the introduction of the wines. The group would taste six different wines that night—spanning such geographic expanses as the wine fields of Northern Italy?...
...nothing short of a modern day Tom A. Lehrer ’47, GSAS ’66, reviving the great 1950’s humorist’s satirical songstylings.Ingber’s songs poked fun at the hypocrisy of rock stars, Facebook users, and non-conformists. Chatter in between songs gave him a chance to amuse the audience with his stand-up. He advised fellow students looking for summer jobs to avoid using “sexyassholebitch@yahoo.com” as their reference email address.His show, which immediately followed Winthrop Stein Club, wisely followed the cardinal rule...