Word: chitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this book came out some months ago. Every leading culture vulture has taken his shot at it. It is still hanging in there at the number 14 position on most best seller lists. In the literate little womb of Cambridge, full of cocktail party chitter chatter, you're probably only safe if you say, "I've heard about it and I'm waiting to buy the paperback...
Wilson is skillful in combining 20-20 dream vision with auditory parody. In one scene, the backdrop carries the words CHITTER CHATTER printed several hundred times. Half a dozen or more couples are seated in silence at small cafe tables. Simultaneously, they all begin gesticulating and making high-pitched gibberish conversation. In comedic nonsense, this replicates every cocktail party that anyone has ever attended...