Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast an occasional wistful eye at the old-world advantages-including fat government subsidies-of European opera houses. Despite the fact that, artistically speaking, there are really no big managerial plums after the Met (Milan's La Scala is not likely to hire a non-Italian boss), gossip that Vienna-born Manager Bing was about to leave has persistently cropped up. Last week the Met's directors announced that Bing has been signed to a new five-year contract, and that the Opera was reserving the option of signing him for two years after that...
...circulation drop to have cut its advertising rates this summer; its sales fell 19%. compared with 16.2% for the Journal-American and 18.2% for the tabloid Post (circ. 350,814). The World-Telly has brightened its own financial section with new features, e.g., columns on Wall Street gossip, market letters and mutual funds, and switched Charles G. Haskell from his job as assistant managing editor, to run the business and financial pages. A spokesman denied that the changes were inspired by the Journal's plans, said that his paper's circulation was already recovering beyond expectations and gamely...
...star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never...
...Government toilers, at least, the book's unsalted satire will be a mouthwatering mess of office gossip. And it is also probable that in these humor-scarce times, the book will become a bestseller. It bears a declaration, signed by Publisher Alfred Knopf personally, to the effect that "I cannot remember when I have laughed so much over a novel." On this evidence, at least. Publisher Knopf is easily amused...
...eternal, and not with impunity can some other's destiny cross our own." Elisabeth, in despair, recognizes that her maternal love for Robert had concealed the extravagant sexuality of a starved woman. Even self-righteous Pierre has a brief moment of horror at what his retailing of gossip has caused, but he quickly comforts himself with the thought that there had been time for Robert to make a confession and receive the last sacraments...