Word: shoptalking
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After almost 20 years as a U.S. career diplomat (he resigned in 1953) and onetime head of the Voice of America, Charles W. (for Wheeler) Thayer does not believe in lying diplomacy. In this urbane, witty and information-packed volume of shoptalk about the diplomatic life, West Pointer ('33) Thayer outlines his notion that diplomats ought to rely on patience, sound education, a controlled temper-and honesty. That, feels Thayer, is the basis of the West's diplomatic tradition, despite occasional blunders and deceits. But there is another diplomatic school, the Byzantine, and its deceitful and violent tradition...
...After a two-day swing through the Middle West, including a three-hour conference with Adlai Stevenson, Pat Brown headed back to California with the an nouncement that he would be "only" a favorite-son candidate. Two days of shoptalk with the Democratic elders had convinced him that he should not be a serious candidate for the presidency. ¶From Washington, word leaked out that Favorite Son Brown might have his sights focused on a lesser prize. In a September conference with Lyndon Johnson, the peripatetic Brown said frankly that Johnson could never win the California primary, though he thought...
...with it a shock of recognition: the austere genius was, after all, like unto other men. This touch of human bondage also animates Eliot's best poetry, and again appears in this book, in which Eliot shows that he is like other men. too, in his predilection for shoptalk. In these pieces, which range in time from 1926 to the present and in subject matter from Virgil to Kipling, the poet-critic is talking shop about the poet's trade. But, Eliot being Eliot, there is also an underlying concern with the larger meaning...
...these books, Cozzens not only searched himself, but researched his subjects with immense care. For The Just and the Unjust he haunted the nearby Doylestown courthouse (it reappears in By Love Possessed), devoured legal tomes, listened to the shoptalk of the lawyers, finally became so adept that he was stumping" them on abstruse points of law. An Air Force general proofread Guard of Honor for boners, found not a single...
...follows the great man from a jailhouse to a penthouse, and the trip is sometimes fun. Kazan takes time to inspect such scenic wonders of TV as the reason-why-sell, the inverse commercial, the collective think, the built-in crowd. He also provides some hilarious examples of TV shoptalk ("Great show. J.B." "Ye-e-es, I think it had size"). And all the while he is sinking the oyster knife into his victim, who loves nothing in the world so much as power-above all the power to make people crawl...