Word: chitchatting
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...many company publications in danger of losing this battle? The chief reason is that the majority deliberately pull their punches. Unlike union papers, which thrive on dispute and energetically exploit any issue that affects the worker's welfare, most house organs concentrate on personal notes and chitchat. They not only shun controversy but steer clear of any stories on company policies and problems. A recent survey of 75 house organs in the Los Angeles area showed that only 15% made any attempt to communicate management plans and policies, almost all the rest were filled with social and personal items...
...edge of her every enthusiasm. She is a roaring Life Drive without a muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little old lady from Dubuque will find Auntie Mame some gal, but no lady...
...mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business, you will be astonished . . . how fast they will change their tune." At first, Hartford's targets shrugged him off as a crank with money. Newspaper editorials and letters-to-the-editors, plus arty-party chitchat, have shown in the past month that Hartford does make sense to thousands of people. But his view that art should follow only a middle road-a three-lane, 40-miles-an-hour parkway between photographic realism and emotional expressionism-is too pat to be persuasive. It would sacrifice the adventurousness...
...home, "gave myself a dose of castor oil, took a cold bath-and now I wouldn't even mind doing another play." When the 37-year-old Chekhov collapsed from a tuberculous attack in 1897, the great Tolstoy stormed past the nurses to soothe the patient with bedside chitchat, but stayed on to argue that a work of art only fulfilled its function if an uneducated peasant could understand it. By the time Tolstoy left, Chekhov had had a serious relapse...
...show needs more such perkiness. more of the zip Belafonte puts into When the Saints Go Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...