Word: chatterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national advertising and on TV, so little for the local tie-in campaigns that nail down sales. Some of the ill feeling even brushes off on topnotch TV Saleswoman Betty Furness. Snapped a Seattle dealer: "She condescends to women, talks down to them. Maybe her kind of chitter-chatter goes good on Park Avenue but not in Seattle, Washington...
Though it ultimately achieves a kind of wry grandeur, the play does so on its own ironic rather than on any customary dramatic turns. Tiger displays a charming loquacity, a dawdling relentlessness. Helen must chatter and Hecuba sniff, and there are little vaudevilles on the difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental...
...brain-straining technical sessions, in press conferences, even in the chatter of cocktail parties, the scientists exchanged information, ideas and prognostications on the power for good that lies in a power associated for so long with war. Mostly it was the sound, detailed talk of scientists to scientists-facts about Russia's 5,000-kw. showpiece reactor (TIME, Aug. 15), U.S. uses of radio isotopes in medicine and industry, Britain's plans to begin making commercial atomic-power reactors...
Squeaking with enthusiasm, Campy keeps a chatter of encouragement flowing back to the pitcher. "Come on, roomie," he will holler at his road-trip roommate, Don Newcombe. "Hum that pea." Neither Newk nor anyone else is permitted a moment's carelessness. Once, when Don Newcombe crossed up his catcher with a slow curve after taking the signal for a fast ball, Roy promptly flipped off his mask and padded out to the mound. "How come you give me the local when I call for the express?" he demanded in singsong irritation. Campy believes that his chatter helps. Says...
...roomie," came the catcher's high-pitched chatter. "Hum that pea." Big Newk obliged. He took aim, reared back and fired. The ball whistled in. It looked just as small and twice as lively as a drop of water dancing on a hot griddle. All afternoon, the Cards collected only eight hits, turned them into three thin runs. Not a man among them drew a walk. The Dodgers, meanwhile, scored twelve times. In five times at bat the versatile Newk got two singles, a double, and a tremendous homer into the right field stands...