Word: rumorings
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JETHRO TULL. Every unfounded rumor that Ian Anderson's group has disbanded, ceased recording, stopped performing, and so on blames the group's alleged demise on Anderson's frustration with critics who don't take his music seriously. The problem is that he takes himself so seriously that he hardly leaves room for anyone else. Tull's work is sometimes imaginitive. It is almost always pretentious. But Boston Garden--where you sit two miles from the performers--seems like the worst place to enjoy Anderson's flute-playing acrobatics...
Italian leftist rhetoric is among the most juvenile and ineffectual in the world. Italy has a large communist party, including, rumor has it, most of the gondoliers on Venice's canals, but the party shares the capricious instability characteristic of all Italian politics. A few years ago, a popular film appeared here presenting a scenario in which the Communists won a majority in the general elections and then, in despair in having actually to take power, accused the liberal parties of rigging the election to force them into that political hot seat. Rhetoric riddled with both stubbornness and naivete dominated...
...operators connect subscribers by name as readily as by number, and the 40 seconds or so it takes for them to put through a call constitute, for most of the townspeople, a gossipy interval to be savored rather than speeded up. Each local operator is at once town crier, rumor center and community commissioner of safety. How can a system that depends so deeply on amity and fraternity be compared with the hum, buzz and click of automated equipment? Said one resident: "Like the pelican, it may be forced into extinction. But I feel it is superior...
...disappearance of a newsman in Italy usually prompts suspicions that he was getting close to Mafia secrets and was accordingly taken out of circulation. Thus when ABC's Jack Begon, 61, turned up missing from Rome last July 22, published rumor blamed the Brotherhood. Begon's glasses were found smashed on the floor of ABC's Rome office, along with press cards and documents belonging to the journalist; the office safe had been opened and $2,000 was missing. Begon's name was on the passenger list of a morning flight to Palermo, Sicily-a Mafia...
ALAN SEVERANCE also believes in a God of rescue. And as he progresses in his treatment, this sense of religious dependence increases. His t-group rates highly his abilities to manage his life. And shortly thereafter Alan hears a rumor that he may be going home soon. But the tension has not yet resolved itself. Alan's strong dependency on his faith brings inevitable crisis. His Belief is finally circumstantial: turned off when his father dies, turned back on when his own death threatens. His notions of a benevolent God of rescue is threatened by his belief...