Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of Oxford's social activities, however, come properly under the heading of education, particularly political education (the most satisfied Americans at Oxford are the ones who have come to study politics). If this is considered a glorification of gossip, what is the difference between bright chatter in a preceptorial and bright chatter in the Junior Common Rooms, the clubs, the dining rooms and cafeterias...
Even then, Zermatt officials publicly pooh-poohed rumors of an epidemic. The Zermatt Tourist Office pronounced Zermatt's water "99.93% pure," while local citizens denounced the "foreign sensationalist press" for reporting the gossip...
...question is whether Americans will read O'Hara for gossip and sex or for his social criticism. Almost certainly they will stick to the familiar American pattern and relax with his books while snuggled in suburban armchairs. For O'Hara's descriptions are so real, his eye and ear so keen, that we can accept the stories at face value and place The Cape Cod Lighter on the coffee table next to The Saturday Evening Post. To recognize the bite and satire on every page would be to challenge the foundations of our entire way of life
There is little in the exchange that could be called mere gossip. When Durrell's wife leaves him, the fact is briefly noted; and he soon replaces her in the country house in Provence with a French-Alexandrian girl able to type 10,000 words a day. From Big Sur, Miller dryly mentions "Lepska has decamped," but soon he too is being well looked after. Both live their lives of authentic dedication to writing; there is no unpleasant whine about its disciplinary austerities such as disfigure the correspondence of D.H. Lawrence or even the tougher but litigious Joyce...
...fields like a pair of amorous butterflies. But the next day, when she takes off for town to buy some groceries, he stops her by main force. And a little while later, when the postman rings, he hides in the bedroom till the fellow goes away. "To avoid gossip," he explains a little too anxiously, and she accepts his explanation. But about the same time she discovers that her loaded gun is missing, and that night she sees on his arm a peculiar scar that could belong only to one man: the quisling, now a fugitive, who supervised the torture...