Word: talkfest
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...fleeting hour last week, it seemed more like a reunion and a radical talkfest than a murder trial. In an empty New Haven, Conn., jury room, Black Panther Chairman Bobby Scale met and embraced his old friend, Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton. Court proceedings and stints in jail had kept them apart for nearly three years. Now Newton was present as a spectator, and Scale as a witness in the trial of Black Panther Lonnie McLucas. Said Newton of the encounter: "It was beautiful. I had heard Bobby was fasting, but he looked like he was putting on weight...
Onstage, an incessant talkfest drones on about the methods and morality of war-all of it aimed at justifying Hochhuth's conviction that mass bombing should be prohibited by international law. Much of the time, Lord Cherwell (Joseph Shaw) confers with Churchill on the best tactics to follow. Cherwell, Churchill's friend and wartime scientific adviser, is presented as an eminence noire who, with a kind of icy diaholism, determined the Prime Minister's policies on both Sikorski and mass bombings. This again is at distinct variance with the historical record...
Only when the Congressmen had talked themselves out, and passed the bill by 385 votes to 16, did they realize that the specific intent of the measure had somehow been overlooked in the patriotic talkfest. Though it had originally been framed as a response to the burning of a U.S. flag in Manhattan's Central Park last May, the bill as passed covered "publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling or trampling upon" the banner but did not in fact mention the act of flag flammation. That form of desecration will doubtless be reproscribed, with appropriate oratory, in the Senate...
...Press. Last month the University of Colorado sponsored a teach-in on God, featuring William Hamilton and Dr. George Forell of the University of Iowa's School of Religion; more than 1,700 people showed up for the seven-hour session?a greater turnout than for a recent similar talkfest on Viet Nam. At the University of California at Santa Barbara, students and faculty jammed two lecture halls to hear Harvey Cox talk on "The 'Death of God' and the Future of Theology...
...been forced to improvise from hour to hour. What looked like a stroke of intuitive genius one day seemed to be a blunder of impulsive foolishness the next. Nobody has found this more frustrating than the President of the U.S. Said Lyndon Johnson in a four-hour, after-dinner talkfest with some 30 journalists in the Georgetown home of Columnist Max Freedman: "We think we've got something patched up there and then it falls apart...