Word: talkiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told, the volumes make a wonderfully cranky, talky, valuable record, as honest as daylight, as native as Congress gaiters and a black string tie. The latest installment is probably the crankiest and talkiest of the lot: a huge collection of clips, quotes, yarns, letters, anecdotes, poor jokes, explanations and refutations. The arrangement is roughly chronological, pointed up with oldtime editorial subheads ("A Doubting Thomas Converted," "Are Dreadnaughts Doomed?"), illustrated with practically a national gallery of photographs and political cartoons...
...many another writer this tale might be worth perhaps 50 of the 453 pages devoted to it-a prettily sentimental, rather chokingly over-literary, long short story. But of course it is by no means all. The first six chapters, which are perhaps the most inactive and certainly the talkiest in contemporary literature, set up in great detail, with blank and awful irony, the effects of genius upon certain individuals-a secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household...
...post-World War I Paris, music, like politics, nearly foundered in a sea of talk. Talkiest was a group called "The Six." "The Six" talked more than they composed, got the Left Bank dizzy with conversation. As the years passed the one woman member of "The Six," GermaineTailleferre,got married; another member, Louis Durey, gave up both composing and talking. But two of them actually got around to a large batch of serious composing. One of these was a Swiss, Arthur Honegger-famed for his symphonic imitation of a train (Pacific 231)-the other was Darius Milhaud...