Word: logorrhea
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...tickets for a hit show, and Eugene Gant, far from being intimidated by the problem of white flannels, would have his Dacron boxer shorts laundered by the staff of the Americana Hotel. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before his train reached Bumpkinsville. The provincialism of Gopher Prairie and booster clubs, of Mencken's "booboisie" and Lewis' Babbittry, which believed that the outside world began at the end of Main Street and thought of Dante as "that Dago poet," is as dead as the America of button shoes and chicken...
...that Irishmen write stories at great speed because they are afraid of being interrupted by another Irishman with an even taller story. Logorrhea may be a Greek word, but the Irish are the most egregious...
...symmetry." There are only two characters: the dumpy, 50-year-old Winnie, and her impotent, sixtyish mate Willie. But the talpine Willie has very little to say or to do; and thus the play is essentially a long monologue by Winnie. When all else fails, she's got her logorrhea to keep her warm...
...most imaginations, the term educational television instantly produces a picture of a threadbare professor with terminal logorrhea, droning on and on and on. But educational TV has long since set higher standards than that, and no one is less interested in the dull professor than the people who are shaping the future of educational...
...rate -is almost to qualify someone as a freak or a genius. Last week, at the new Reading Dynamics Institute in Washington, D.C., one pert college girl chewed up a sociology textbook at the rate of 14,000 w.p.m. Other students, from lawyers to Senators, mined such lodes of logorrhea as Anthony Adverse in less than two hours. What's more, they developed almost total recall: the whole point was comprehension. Washington has seen nothing like it since the days when Teddy Roosevelt read three books a day and ran the country at the same time...