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...ersatz" or "outre," nor people "parvenu"; chamois gloves and cummerbunds are "de rigeur." A favorite social disease is known fondly as "The Syph". All is familiar and in its place, for good or for worse. You are meant to enter his world of social fatuousness, accept his intimate chit-chat as personal conseil and assume that you possess all the sports cars, villas and yachts that are referred to. As a result, you and your mythical antagonist--i.e., the ever-present social enemy--become the protagonists. The verbal bouts in which you both engage are conducted in two dialects: "pukka...
Perhaps this heel will be cured by next year, but the cry of next year has become the trademark of the Harvard basketball program, one which could use a new place to play, a new schedule and a new outlook. And for openers, how about a little chit-chat between the coach and the players. Now that would really...
Well the stream behind our shack was running strong and clear and the poplars along its banks poured down their green light so we sank our cases and sat down to a good three hours of quaffing and smoking and low-brow chit-chat. The girls played with a twig-sized water snake. That skinny, terrified little thing twisted about my hand, and it was hell...
Three days later old Daniel and Gay were back together for another month. Bridget and Jenny were staying over and Briggs and I were out hustling. We were all shouting across the fiber-board, and though nobody talked about Pegleg Mac's, we found plenty other low brow chit-chat...
...there were plenty of other things to do when chit-chat about old prep school buddies and blustering predictions about the next day's games began to pall. You could always just watch. Or you could get drunk, if the jostling, six-deep crowd at the bar didn't scare you off (and it usually didn't). Or you could blow your money on roulette and backgammon. You could fox-trot to a three-man band, complete with a black pianist playing "As Time Goes By." Or you could be interviewed by The New York Times...