Word: chattier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles that make up this book are also aimed more at the swinger than the history hound, but they are chattier and more discursive. Written by hardened New York novelists and journalists, they cover the town with a cynical gallantry and inverse snobbery typical of the big-city provincial. This prevailing tone accounts for both the strengths and weaknesses of the book. It is authentic-mirroring the New Yorker's romance with artistic success and mechanical failure, Jewishness, the infallibility of cab drivers and elevator men, the superiority of Manhattan parks, ghettos and delicatessens. Tom Wolfe, a Yale...
Throughout the week, in the White House and aboard the yacht Honey Fitz, the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain talked earnestly. Their styles differed: John Kennedy spoke briskly, changing the subject whenever the conversation began to lag, while Harold Macmillan preferred a chattier, more leisurely pace. Their aims differed too: Kennedy was anxious to impress Macmillan with his ability to lead not only the U.S. but the free world; Macmillan was eager to convince Kennedy of Britain's value as an honest broker in the cold war. From time to time, aides issued...