Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beat Carter is Carter [Sept. 20]. He is a compulsive talker often forgetting what he has said before and sticking his political foot in his mouth...
Long Shot. It has taken all this time to find a true talker. Arlen might easily have fixed his face in a harsh attitude. It would have been facile for him to sentimentalize the Armenians, Saroyan style, or to hold them at arm's length, as his father did. Instead, after the atrocious accounts and the sense of humanity's dreadful fragility, Arlen realizes that the "I" has become part of "them," that "to be an Armenian has meant that one has been compelled by circumstance to rise above or fall below -or, anyway, to skirt-these...
...evolution. It is a task clearly beyond Edward Berkely, who has directed the revival at Joseph Papp's Newhouse Theater in Manhattan. He has interred the play in 20th century sentimentality. The actors do their own thing, and the play becomes farce. Unloved Helena is a coy baby-talker and Poltergeist Puck a Harlem Globetrotter; the fairy attendants are reduced to midgets, and Bottom bloats into a wisecracking...
Garrulous and profane, an almost compulsive talker, Strauss is a throwback to the era of the smoke-filled rooms. At a time when the far-out liberals and the deep-dyed conservatives threaten to pull the Democrats apart, Strauss is the great compromiser who is dedicated to strengthening the center, which he defines as the "progressive middle" of the party. The job is ticklish, but Strauss points out: "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive...
...prodigious talker, La Follette also in spired Morse with his lifelong love of or atory - the longer the better...