Word: whisperer
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...nobody else will let you forget about your failure either. Whenever you visit your hometown, an old woman will point you out in the street and whisper to whomever walks by, "See that one? Went to the big city, up North, and won a big, fancy fellowship. And you know what? Durn fool never amounted to nuthin...
...ever hinted at the importance of that. My friends and I were taught in detail about the South's civil rights abuses, but were practically never exposed to similar phenomena in the North. We understood every aspect of the "white flight" from our own schools, but never heard a whisper about the Boston busing fiasco. I figured that race relations in the North were like one big Sesame Street--everyone a cheerful next-door neighbor...
Other subjects deal with such worrisome matters as male impotence (it is frequently a physical problem that can be fixed) and women's concerns about small breasts (don't fret -- many men nowadays approve). "We don't discuss these things," says Reinisch. "We whisper about them. But we don't really communicate about them, and we're certainly not educated about them...
...think?" Jane calls out. "Liked it," says Gartner, a squarish, soft-spoken executive badly in need of some peace and quiet. Pauley senses there might be more on his mind: "You talking about anything . . .?" Gartner saunters toward her and offers one suggestion for the show in a conspiratorial half whisper: "More Jane...
...affirmative-action programs lately, surprised civil rights advocates by approving the FCC rules in a 5-to-4 decision. "Benign race-conscious measures mandated by Congress" are permissible, the majority ruled, if "they serve important governmental objectives." Regardless of the professed policies, the voice of minorities remains barely a whisper; they still hold only 3.5% of the licenses...