Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twining, 59, will become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Admiral Arthur Radford's term expires in August, and 2), Twining's replacement will be Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Thomas White, 55, a skilled Pentagon hand since 1948. Missing from all the gossip lists was the name of Strategic Air Commander Curtis LeMay, 50, one of the great military organizers of modern times, who does not wear a West Point ring (Ohio State '32) and is considered too bullish for the Washington china shop by the Pentagon's apostles of super-smoothness...
...Krishnamurti, all references to the future veil and obstruct the self from realization in what he defines as the present Being). Gossip and newspapers, for instance, originate from concern for others, lead to externalization and inward emptiness. But he fails to see that the self must define itself by that very concern for those others among whom the self is undeniably and inextricably "thrown." Denying our interest in others excludes a vital part of ourselves...
...film was not "the one with the lip who sings about love and the beauty of life." Rather, viewers got a wistful look at the seedy quarter of Menilmontant, where Chevalier was born and at 14 sang for pennies in the streets, at pimply kids clumping over cobbled streets, gossip-mongering concierges, young lovers in the Bois de Boulogne, and stunning panoramas of the city bathed in soft blue light. Men goggled in admiration at the stylish hustle on the sidewalks of the Champs-Elysées and inside the salon ol Designer Jean Desses, as the camera ogled with...
Presumably to help the reader know the church, Author Peyrefitte mixes painstaking research with scurrilous gossip, pokes facile fun at the hairsplitting of moral theology and at the bookkeeping of indulgences. (The church, the abbé is told, no longer sells indulgences but gives them away, and his Roman associates collect them "like a crow after cherries...
First order of business was an informal reunion of coaches, judges and other miscellaneous friends of the trade at which acquaintances and feuds were renewed and gossip exchanged...