Word: chatteringly
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...American tendency to unchecked garrulity is most conspicuous in the realm of TV sports, but it does not begin or end there by a long shout. The late-evening TV news, for example, is aclutter with immaterial chatter. "Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk . . ." Rodgers and Hammerstein offered that lyrical advice to young lovers, but a great many TV news staffers have adopted it as an inviolable rule of tongue. Happy talk is not reprehensible, but should it be force-fed to an audience looking for the news? Surely not, no more than a sports fancier tuning in football...
Personality, roles and situations all work in the chemistry that induces excessive chatter. And certain subjects pull the stopper on even temperate people. Food, for example, instigates a preposterous quantity of repetitious chat. Sex? It has already provoked such an excess of discussion-functional and gynecological-that it is fair to rule all future comment on the subject may be surplus...
...soon as the rumors became public, the issue of Cunningham's integrity dominated coffee table chatter and cocktail party scuttlebutt at corporate gatherings everywhere. The press lavished so much attention on speculations about Cunningham's morality that The New York Times--after running the story on its own front page--editorialized, "Never in recent memory has so much been written about so little," The question both the media and the business world seemed to want answered was not whether Cunningham was qualified, but the snickering, "was she or wasn...
When the biggest and baddest at the Kennedy School of Government lumber into a seminar room to work over a major political problem, you expect some noise--if not national media chatter or awed applause from Washington, then at least the venerable murmurs of academe. If the heavyweights square off against an issue as imposing as the transition of presidents, you might even look for Howard Cosell at ringside, narrating the blow by blow. But the presidential transition is just the problem that Institute of Politics (IOP) director Jonathan Moore, K-School professor Ernest R. May and several of their...
...students sprawl on smooth lawns, chat in the green shade of old maple trees, and stroll among rosy brick and crisp white clapboard buildings. But this is no typical summer school. The students are somewhat longer of tooth and thicker of waist than the average undergraduate, and their chatter is about polymers and photoconduction, magnetic resonance and spectroscopy. They are participants in one of the Gordon Research Conferences, possibly the oldest and most eminent floating brain trust in the world...