Word: chits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheer respect for Henrik Ibsen (even Ibsen at his worst), provided the momentum for last night's production at the Loeb. Director Caroline Cross persistently believed in the applicability of the play, and a good cast went far toward transforming grandiose chit-chat into drama...
...Tell Dick . . ." Last week, standing on a red-white-and-blue-bannered platform in his Los Angeles campaign headquarters, Goodie Knight named names and dates. Waving in his right hand a paper chit, Knight said it was a receipt for a $6.21 telephone call made on the morning of Sept. 8 from his room No. 108 in Sacramento's El Dorado Hotel. The call was to Los Angeles Banker J. Howard Edgerton, who had earlier tried and failed to reach Goodie by phone. According to Knight, the conversation went like this...
...past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat, and the whine of a power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade...
...national press and radio "have been full of discouraging chit-chat," Glimp says, and high school guidance counselors have become more careful about Harvard. Moreover, many students and parents may decide that applying to Harvard is not worth the effort. "This rigorous self-selection worries us," Glimp says. Although he sees "no great problem as long as we handle our contacts and the press correctly," Glimp admits, "this could result in less breadth in our applicants...
...stroll alone into barber shops, super markets, and taverns, extend his hand and say "I'm Tom O'Connor running for U.S. Senator." "Could I leave one of these with you?" said the mayor as he dropped a brochure in the hand of the voter. There was very little chit-chat or contact after that. O'Connor was not known by Massachusetts, and his campaign did not expose him much more to the electorate...