Word: whisperer
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...days later, in Crete, I go to visit a young girl, an American-educated friend from previous trips. At the travel bureau where she works they tell me she is out of town. On vacation? No, not exactly. She's gone to Chania. When is she expected back? Well (whisper), you see, she is in jail. She took part in a demonstration in support of Papandreou and against the Junta on the day of the coup. The prosecutor demanded six months on parole. The court-martial meted out three years in jail. This is how it always happens these days...
...England's Dorsetshire -lives Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a typical calamity-prone Hardy heroine. Willful, flirtatious, she is pursued by men with names as solid as a Chippendale sideboard. They are Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished sheepman; Boldwood (Peter Finch), a strange, eroded landowner of whom people whisper, warns Bathsheba's servant girl, that "he has no passionate parts"; and Troy (Terence Stamp), a seducer-soldier who has his way with any lass who meets his come-hither eyes...
Author Epstein, whose 1964 book Leah was a controlled whisper of a novel, is one of those rarities in American letters-the completely rounded writer, capable of handling the counterpoint that this theme necessitates. If his method is kitchen realism (down to the whirring refrigerator), his manner is as fine as the tinkle of dining room crystal. He does not try to bomb the reader out of his mind, nor is he out to revolutionize his conscience. Rather, he tells a story with grace and wit, taking the common-or universal-experiences of life as the basis for a work...
...celebrated trio of witches, Houseman has taken up Margaret Webster's suggestion that "we should see as little as possible of the Witches in the flesh of actors or actresses." In all three of their scenes, their voices are broadcast in a strong whisper over loudspeakers. In the first and third, they are not visible at all; and in the second they are represented by vaguely moving black shapes scarcely perceptible on the almost totally dark stage. This approach serves to increase the impact of the Witches as pervasive and ubiquitous symbols of evil. Only one of the voices...
...member and long a fierce enemy of enforced school integration, with at least a slight popular lead on the early form sheet. A strong campaigner who topped the ticket in the last two citywide elections, Mrs. Hicks wows the voters with her theme song-Every Little Breeze Seems to Whisper Louise-and her parochial slogan: "Boston for Bostonians." In a city of strong ethnic divisions and relatively low levels of income (45% of the registered voters earn under $6,000) and education (38% never finished high school), she appeals to those who distrust academics, business leaders and suburbanites...