Word: yatter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...IMPOSSIBLE MARRIAGE, by Pamela Hansford Johnson (344 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; ($3.75) is as feminine as a tearoom at high noon. The yatter is about 1) love, 2) men, 3) women, and 4) the fixes 2 and 3 get themselves into over 1. Christine Jackson, the first-person British heroine of the story, is 18, lonely and romantic...
Prohibition was such an all-pervasive issue that it shut off discussion of problems that turned out to be far more important. Prohibition polarized Congress, dominated the 1928 election, absorbed the White House, obsessed the press and smothered discussion of other grave questions of the Coolidge-Hoover period. The yatter over Prohibition died with Repeal. In 1953, the responsible leaders of the U.S. will not get public discussion back on the most important issues until they extinguish the McCarthyism debate by an equivalent of Repeal. Since serious people can hardly believe that Communism influences the present Administration, much ground...
...question reflected one of the most widely voiced objections to Eisenhower. The yatter against a military man in the White House seems to include these assumptions...