Word: talker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost a compulsive talker," he confessed to TIME Correspondent Robert Anson last week. "I love talking with people, trying to mold attitudes, change social value systems and get people involved in solving urban problems. In one telecast 1 can talk to more people than I have in the past two years...
...play's climactic scene finds Rolfe (who is called George Arthur Rose in the novel) gossiping with his bishop about the long drawn-out election of a new Pope. With malice towards everyone, Rolfe is as agile as a marmoset, and a sharp-toothed incessant talker. The talk is hushed as chanting begins in the rear of the theater. With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense. As the cardinals reach the stage, they pause before the bishop and the priest: "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" Rolfe turns...
Called "Chico," he will shoot two shows--straight pool at 7:30 and nine ball at 8:30. Sharp, a fast talker, and fancy shooter, he will display the talents that made losers out of Weenie Beanie, Strawberry, and Squirrel. "Chico" gives Harvard and Radcliffe students an opportunity to learn what "The Hustler" was all about...
...save room. History 160c sounds like the course which brilliant, tough-minded Bernard Bailyn has always wanted to teach. It concerns the Emergence of the Liberal State. James Thomson will be teaching History 171b which treats American-Far Eastern Relations and will hit Vietnam. Thomson is a good talker who worked in the National Security Council on the Far East. And no Harvard Education is complete without a little James Joyce. Reuben Brower will discuss him and other English authors in English...
...coining the term ekistics (derived from the Greek word for home) to dignify city planning as "the science of human settlement." He describes his own methodology for charting an urban area's future as the "isolation of dimensions and elimination of alternatives," or, more handily, I.D.E.A. No mere talker, Doxiadis has helped resettle 10 million humans in 15 countries. His projections for Detroit are part of a $2,000,000, three-stage report on the city's future presented last week...