Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time newspapers were smoking with gossip stories that the two potential 1960 presidential rivals were trying to cold-shoulder each other. Rockefeller landed in town from a conspicuously far-from-Nixon upstate campaign swing, got on the phone to Nixon's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Tower, suggested an appointment. Nixon left it to his staff to set up a breakfast date at 7:45 next morning, let it be known that he was delaying his scheduled departure from New York to keep the date. The upshot: Nixon and Rockefeller got together for breakfast (oatmeal for Nixon...
Good Morning, Professor. Provincial Criminal Investigation Director Benito Ibanez listened to the gossip and sent a few men around for a routine snoop. When they got nowhere Ibaez sallied forth with 70 armed cops and barged into the larger of the two houses gun in hand, ready for anything. Not even Ibanez was prepared for what he saw. Flanked by a Red star bearing the hammer and sickle, a tall, mustachioed teacher was holding class for some two dozen adult students. Ibanñez had stumbled onto the "Aurora" college-an international center for training Communist propagandists...
Sociologists Caplow and McGee dust up a storm of statistics, even compile a table of percentages on professors who are given farewell parties before leaving for other jobs. They also manage to throw in enough anonymous professorial gossip to make sure that their blast is an academic bestseller. Grouses one professor-hiring department chairman, of the candidates sent him from the great universities: "We took him on the basis of the enthusiastic support of an outstanding professor at Harvard. That's very important. If Princeton pushes a man, I know it means I'll have to look somewhere...
...rather than political or economic At the big house on Don Cesare's estate, a succulent teenage virgin named Marietta is fighting off the panting assault of Tonio, her brother-in-law. Most men want Marietta on sight, and no small part of the town's everlasting gossip is devoted to estimating the chances of the likeliest males. Landlord Don Cesare himself, now 74, is still virile and, by what seemed to him natural right, he has always taken the women of his workers...
WATER Music, by Bianco VanOrden (254 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is at bottom an old-fashioned novel about the tortuous ways of young love, even if its style flashes like high-IQ gossip and the characters are as plausibly etched as perfect counterfeit money. In 309 East & a Night of Levitation (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), Author VanOrden showed a nice disinterest in anything ordinary. Now she makes up ordinary faces as if they were being prepared for an Italian fancy-dress ball. Her young Americans are rich, educated and self-consciously tortured by love and the need to prove that...