Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason Berlin can't sleep much at night may be that, as one of Manhattan's most chronic stayer-uppers (mostly with the bachelor Hoffman, who supplies him with the gossip of which he is so fond), he seldom uses nights for going to bed. This is only natural; the first half of his life was taken up with occupations that shunned the sun: waif on the Lower East Side, warbling ballads in saloons for small coins; singing waiter in a Bowery joint; song-plugger in the cabarets after theater hours; man-about-Times Square and minstrel...
...word must be said about the present Boston production. The individual parts seem particularly easy to act, because of the moderate, genteel simplicity of the verse writing. Dennis King, as the psychiatrist, and Estelle Winwood, as the old gossip, gave especially distinguished performances. The only actor who was patently inadequate was Harry Ellerbe, who did not bring enough solidity and urbanity to his portrayal of the distraught husband...
...Wall Street's professional traders have long groaned at the periodic interference of amateurs, e.g., gossip columnists, bureaucrats, etc., whose wild "tips" or forecasts sometimes set off furious selling for no valid reason. Last week another amateur got into the act: Joseph Stalin...
...undergraduate friends, he befriended and spurred countless Princetonians. He liked intimate poetry readings in his rooms, hated formal lectures ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible"), and never qualified for his profession's union card, the Ph.D. An old bachelor who loved gossip, for years he kept an intimate diary of Princeton goings-on, one day in a fit of depression destroyed it. He is remembered in a special poetry room in Princeton's new Firestone Memorial Library, given anonymously by "a grateful advisee...
Truman, however, explains to Hillman: "I rarely write angry letters . . . Most of the letters I write are the letters of a good neighbor. I like to gossip with friends. I like to exchange views and opinions with people in all walks of life...