Word: murmuring
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...sweltering summer, the day after Teddy Kennedy with-drew from the presidential sweepstakes. But the pleasantly air-conditioned Kenned School of Government is abuzz with activity as on most other days, figures rushing through snakelike corridors, stopping briefly to salute one another, filling the Forum with its recognizable murmur. To a detached observer, these people exude a slightly self-important air--but they also give the impression that they have places...
...sweltering summer, the day after Teddy Kennedy with-drew from the presidential sweepstakes. But the pleasantly air-conditioned Kenned School of Government is abuzz with activity as on most other days, figures rushing through snakelike corridors, stopping briefly to salute one another, filling the Forum with its recognizable murmur. To a detached observer, these people exude a slightly self-important air--but they also give the impression that they have places...
This has been a summer of some discontent in New Hampshire, and it is not hard to see why. The sun is shining, a gentle breeze is blowing from the west, and the temperature is 84°. The lake is not far away. Blissful, you may murmur, if the gentle breeze and the lapping of the lake let you get a murmur in edgewise. But the New Hampshireman is not at ease with bliss. He knows that there is a catch to it. Finding and cherishing catches is a matter with which he is entirely at ease...
...galloping torrent of words tripping over each other in their eagerness to overwhelm the listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice's contortionist Superintendent of Schools, especially, transform this group into a human array of deformity who physically mirror their own insides...
...hosts nod, murmur "Mmm, yes, oh really," then cut to a commercial--and the band strikes up the theme from Love Story...