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Boston University's WBUR lost its claim to serious classical music broadcasting ever since it introduced idle chatter between selections and its practice of playing single movements of larger pieces. The over-commercialized WCRB uses jingled commercials inconsistent with its format and is unimaginative in its programming. WGBH is simply limited...
...came out of it long ago. He seems wildly well adjusted, at ease with his career, his sexuality, his place on earth. He is a happy camper and a nonstop talker; he's like a character in his novel Social Disease, who "had pledged a lifelong vow of chatter, as surely as Trappists chose silence." He writes what he wants, and people like it. He eats what he wants -- a deplorable diet of M&M's and bagels -- yet has a slim figure and good teeth. "I have the eating habits of a four-year-old," Rudnick says...
...addition, the free food Harvard Dining Services offered during reading period also cut into grill profits, Saparoff said. And studious Dunster residents may have shied away from the grill's blaring television and ceaseless chatter, he said. "The people are great here, but they just don't socialize as much...
...hundreds of federal officers, negotiations swung back and forth between confrontation and conciliation. The FBI, having already tightened the psychological screws by cutting off power to the 78-acre compound, beamed high-intensity lights on the complex at night and avoided cult leader David Koresh's endless telephonic religious chatter. Lawmen then had their first face-to-face meeting with Koresh's top lieutenants, and two days later agents drove three buses to the compound in anticipation of a mass surrender of the 105 men, women and children still inside. But Koresh abruptly dashed those hopes, telling officers that...
True enough. But it also extends beyond religious lines. What the endless media chatter about the Koresh phenomenon misses completely is that millennial thinking is hardly the property of the religious. Indeed, the most widespread and historically significant outbreaks of millenarianism in our time have been secular...