Word: talker
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...determining genetic code from generation to generation. Tall, worldly and vaguely Edwardian, Crick is an avowed atheist who once resigned a Cambridge fellowship when his college announced plans to build a chapel. (''Why should I support the propagation of an error?") He is a brilliant, nonstop talker, was trained as a crystallographer before switching to biology. Crick's Who's Who biography lists his recreation as: "Conversation, especially with pretty women...
...half after proclamation of the blockade, the Navy intercepted the Soviet tanker Bucharest. Oil had been left off the proscribed list because the Administration did not want to draw the line on an item that might be a necessity of life for Cuba. The talker was allowed to pass without inspection...
...Supreme Vice. Wilde was a talker, one of the best who ever lived, and perhaps because he needed the stimulus of conversation, his letters were not so witty as his talk. Rather, the letters confirm Pearson's estimate of Wilde as a man utterly without meanness of spirit, the kindest and most gracious of egomaniacs. Constantly he is seen doing a kindness, praising another author, gracefully laughing off an insult. His own wit, unlike that of his artist friend Whistler, almost never dealt in insults (except when he was insulting Whistler; Wilde observed in one letter that Whistler...
...childish Douglas into an adult assessment of his own character. The passages of confession are moving and wise; for perhaps the only time in his life, Wilde looked at himself clearly and steadily. He wrote, at one point in the letter, that the supreme vice is shallowness. The great talker had that vice; he had also, though he spent a lifetime trying to conceal it, the painful virtue of depth...
...name Novocain), a dubious treatment devised by a Rumanian woman doctor to retard the aging process. He has limited his partygoing, restricted his diet, cut out hard liquor. Nowadays, says Khrushchev, wagging a finger at First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. 66, "he is the drinker, while I am the talker...