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...occurred to him while he was doing freelance work for the British Broadcasting Corp. in London, not long after coming down from Oxford. Using BBC typewriter and paper, the young Naipaul wrote: "Every morning when he got up Hat would sit on the banister of his back verandah and shout across, 'What happening there, Bogart?' " This small scene came from Trinidad and Port of Spain and the crowded, colorful street where Naipaul spent part of his childhood. In later years, with an established and growing reputation, Naipaul returned several times to Trinidad and environs. He looked up Bogart...
...Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, whose arguments that intelligence is genetically determined prompted students in the early '70s to label him racist and repeatedly shout him down in class, says that while he thinks "the letter is good . . . the University is pretty feeble in its efforts to protect free speech." On a day-to-day basis, free speech is not threatened, says Herrnstein, who recalls that he had to call in Cambridge and Harvard Police to try to keep order in his classroom. But in the controversial cases that put the ideal of free speech to the test...
...called Eastern Establishment, whose members are associated with Wall Street and country clubs; their views tend to be more sympathetic to Big Business, internationalism and political pragmatism. The bitterness peaked at the 1964 G.O.P. convention, when the conservative followers of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater tried to shout down his moderate rival, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, with a torrent of jeers and personal insults...
...determined at all costs to preserve their families and their names. Justine Bannard has accepted for years the philandering of her handsome architect husband Chester. When he threatens to run off with the beautiful wife of one of his clients, however, Justine takes action. She does not scream, shout or cry, this woman of Roman virtue; that would send him flying. Instead she talks to the other husband; they agree not only to offer their errant spouses their freedom, but to give them allowances as well (in Auchincloss's world it is often the women who have the money...
...addition, success has spawned dozens of imitators, like NBC's Friday Night Videos. To fend off these rock-alikes, MTV is running commercials with testimonials from pop idols like David Bowie, who shout, "I want my MTV!" When the shares are offered, MTV hopes Wall Street investors will utter those same words...