Word: overhearer
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...formula of Boy Turns Into Girl. Theirs is a lively sniping contest full of sophisticated scorn; they are as pert, as mocking, as hoity-toity-though by no means as hardhearted-as a Restoration gallant and belle. And the trick that is played on them-of causing each to overhear how the other adores him-still has laughter...
...read it.' " Said the Post: he prefers to let others read, see, listen-and even write-for him. "Winchell's 'gossip' ... is primarily the edited product of diligent, harassed press-agents who give him first choice on all evil that they see, hear or overhear-and some of the good, if it involves their own clients . . . The dividends are indirect; they collect proportionately from their clients for the touch of immortality that goes with the expression: 'He's close to Winchell.'" And, added the Post, they live in unholy terror that they will...
...interview with a toddler is necessarily quite summary, but there are many ways to make it more personal. If Spang or I overhear a mother saying, "Here's Santa now, Maureen," we will usually greet the girl with a joyous, "Oh, I remember you! You're Maureen" There are many other ruses. If a boy has a shirt labelled "Steve," it is safe to assume that that is his name; if a girl wears a Girl Scout beret, we can confidently ask her how she's doing in the troop. If she carries a new pocketbook, we say, "Oh, what...
Greene's perfervid admirers will be completely satisfied with his handling of this double difficulty; but even his critics can admire his nerve and applaud his effort: for how else can you hope to hear the truth about human beings unless you overhear them talking to themselves...
...Murphy's comrade in arms, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin plays a young soldier who takes everything with deadly seriousness-from a fistfight in which not a blow is struck to the shattering moment when he and Murphy overhear a general describe their regiment as worthless, just before giving the boys a pep talk and ordering them to attack. With no more continuity or plot than the battle it describes, Red Badge is mostly memorable for its tight vignettes of human confusion. It ends on an appropriately ironic note: the jubilant regiment, having driven back the Confederates, learns that its hard...