Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...
...defendants. Though none of Salazar's ministers has so far been identified as a patron of the ring, the scandal has given a highly charged issue to what antigovernment forces there are. Dr. Mario Scares, a prominent opposition lawyer, was arrested last week on charges of spreading malicious gossip abroad after accounts of the scandal appeared in France's Jeune Afrique and the London Sunday Telegraph. Salazar's strict censors have prevented the local press from printing a word of the mess, but the fascinating revelations are spreading through Portugal by word of mouth...
...taxi driver knows the latest back stage gossip from the opera house. The maid hums Schubert lieder while brewing coffee. The shopkeeper can debate the baton technique of leading conductors. Throughout Austria, everybody seems to be caught up in music, whether as a cultural pursuit, political issue, spectator sport, historical tradition or simple daily pleasure. Other countries may name their streets after composers, but Austria must be the only place where a crack train is called the Mozart Express, and where the national airline has planes called Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. Even affairs of state become insignificant next...
...Journal has since presented the tale of Fat Bernie, a 225-pounder who makes $30,000 a year selling bits of gossip to New York entertainment columnists. If Bernie can't find it, he fabricates it. It has run one man's look at the sterility of the Yale graduate school, in which the student "is deprived by his life style of the use of his senses . . . reading mile after mile of the printed line." It has told--in the hour-by-hour style of Jim Bishop's The Day Lincoln Was Shot--the exciting story of Lady Bird Johnson...
...perfectly legitimate public curiosity about what goes on behind the scenes." Not that people really find out what goes on in the Geis version of the roman è clef. The formula does not require that the novel be based even loosely on truth or, for that matter, on gossip...