Word: whisperer
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...reference Harvardiana, some brash readers have gone so far as to suggest that Mark Epernay, described on the cover-flap as "evidently a distinguished observer of politico-economic trends," is really the pseudonym of a Harvard professor. A few have even had the gall to mention--or, rather, whisper--the name of John Kenneth Galbraith. But that is patently ridiculous. Harvard professors are far too intellectual and have too many hour exams to mark, government officials to consult, and ambassadorial duties to attend to, to have the inclination or the time to write facetous fiction...
...months "coup" had been the loudest whisper heard in South Viet Nam. Coup is what correspondents and lesser U.S. officials talked in the bar at the Hotel Caravelle. Coup is what Diem and his guards feared in the palace. Coup is what the generals finally plotted in their headquarters...
West Virginia's Jennings Randolph, Oregon's Wayne Morse, Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. Trying a similar tactic, though on a smaller scale, Massachusetts Republican Leverett Saltonstall came within a whisper of succeeding. He proposed a straight 1%, or $158 million, cut in procurement spending, lost by a bare two votes...
...pros, both as carefully hand-picked as the members of a royal wedding-were admitted to the off-white salon on Fifth Avenue, sat reverently on couches and little blue chairs to watch six mannequins parade in 150 designs while the aging master explained them in a well-modulated whisper...
...this. All glands-secrete, secrete." Once an aspiring opera singer, Manna scores another sequence with his noteworthy tenor as he graduates the barber of Seville from barber school with a Phi Beta and has him refuse to part a man's hair from ear to ear lest people whisper into the fellow's nose. And in an inspired version of the death of Caesar, he has Caesar standing in the Forum hearing senatorial complaints. One comes from Cassius, who thinks there should be a month named after him. That would be ludicrous, retorts Caesar, whetting Cassius' blade...