Word: chatteringly
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...what the aquarium looks like from the outside." Actually, Malraux approaches the whole history of art from the inside, gets his best insights by studying the beliefs and aspirations that have formed it. For that reason, his book offers few easy generalities, makes difficult reading. But when the easy chatter of the popularizers has faded away, students may still be puzzling out Malraux...
...Berlin's bustling Schloss Strasse last week, worshipers streamed silently into St. Matthew's Evangelical Church. With none of the vestibule chatter common to most church crowds, they seated themselves on straight-backed wooden chairs facing a simple black cross above the plain altar. They did not sing, give hearty responses or even say amen. The only voice was that of elderly (59) Pastor Otto Bartel, who for 29 years has ministered to Berlin's deaf-mutes...
...Kaufman) have written the latest of many price-of-success stories. Appearances, they make clear, can be even more deceitful than their own hard worldlings -in the small hours, the worldlings themselves feel small and lonely. When the play displays the Kaufman gifts for satiric comment and social chatter, it is entertaining and, now & again, incisive. But it emerges less comedy than drama, and less drama than a problem-play department store-3rd Floor: Career Women, Psychic Paralysis, Drugs; 4th Floor: Infidelity, Homosexuality, Adjustment Bureau. Often the elevator has scarcely time to stop, keeps rushing on-5th Floor: Duty Salon...
...James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that Ruby alone of her indolent set has salvaged something by helping to set her daughter right. But this implication is not likely to strike anyone very forcefully amid the mountains of irrelevant society chatter which Novelist Bagnold has felt obliged to record. The Loved and Envied scatters its effect among too many characters, and despite a glossy prose surface often succumbs to lip-trembling sentimentality. Not all the wealthy, fading beauties in Novelist Bagnold's France are worth one little Velvet Brown...
Reluctant Lions. Today, Cockney Bookman Fred Bason is a minor British institution. He addresses Rotary luncheons, mimes on BBC television and exchanges bibliophiliac chatter with his pal, "Willy" (Somerset) Maugham. Nonetheless, at 42, Fred still lives in shimmy Walworth, and though he also owns a bookshop now, still hawks books from a barrow "in the gutter." Like every famed "character," he is permanently hoist with his own reputation: he can no more afford to become rich, or grammatical, or stop collecting autographs or saying "blimey!" than Groucho Marx can afford to adopt an upright, manly stance and a look...