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Gossip

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by Joseph Epstein


  Great Books of the Western World, [>]

  Greenberg, Michael, [>]

  Greene, Graham, [>]

  Greene, Rita, [>]

  Gruber, Lee, [>]

  Grub Street, [>]

  Harding, Warren, [>]

  Hardwick, Elizabeth, [>], [>]

  Harman, Sidney, [>]

  Harrison, Robert, [>]

  Hart, Gary, [>]

  Haskell, Mollie, [>], [>]

  Hatfield, Hurd, [>]

  Hauptmann, Bruno, [>]

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [>]

  Hazlitt, William, [>]

  Hearst Corporation, [>]

  Hecht, Ben, [>]

  Heidegger, Martin, [>]

  Heller, Erich, [>]–[>]

  Hemings, Sally, [>]

  Hemingway, Ernest, [>]

  Here but Not Here (Ross), [>]

  heroes, public, deflating, [>]

  Hersh, Seymour, [>]–[>]

  Hickey, William (pseudonym), [>]

  hidden behavior, revealing. See also gay gossip

  as basis for gossip, [>]–[>], [>]

  and Freudian assumptions, [>]

  as role of gossip, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  high life, focusing on, [>]–[>]. See also celebrities, celebrity

  Hilfiger, Tommy, [>]

  Hilton, Paris, [>]

  historical gossip, [>], [>], [>]

  Hohnsbeen, John, [>]

  Hollywood stars, [>]–[>]. See also celebrities, celebrity

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., [>]

  homosexuality. See gay gossip

  Hooksett, New Hampshire, [>]

  Hoover, J. Edgar, [>], [>]–[>]

  Hopper, Hedda, [>], [>], [>]

  Horowitz, Vladimir, [>]

  House Un-American Activities Committee, [>]

  Howe, Irving, [>]

  Hucksters, The (movie), [>]

  Hudson, Rock, [>]

  human-interest stories, [>]

  human typologies, [>]

  humorous gossip, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Hutchins, Robert, [>]

  Hutton, Len, [>]

  "Hypochondriack, The" (Boswell), [>]

  hypocrisy, revealing, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Hypocrite Virtucrat type, [>]

  idealism, and leaks, [>]

  "Idea of Liberal Education, The" (Klein), [>]–[>]

  idle talk, [>]

  illegitimacy. See births, out of wedlock

  I Married a Communist (Roth), [>]

  impartiality, gossip vs., [>]

  Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), [>]

  incest, gossip about, [>], [>], [>]

  In Cold Blood (Capote), [>]

  indiscretion, and good gossip, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  informational gossip

  about celebrities, [>], [>]–[>]

  ethics of, [>]–[>], [>]

  leaks, [>]–[>]

  and role of journalists, [>]

  unedited, [>]

  value of/uses for, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  "Inner Ring, The" (Lewis), [>]–[>]

  insider knowledge

  gossip as form of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and social status, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  insults, gossip vs., [>]

  interest in gossip, enduring, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Internet

  correcting errors on, [>], [>]

  etiquette for, [>]

  and freedom vs. privacy, [>]–[>]

  impact on nature of gossip, [>]

  insults on, [>]

  and public embarrassment, [>]

  public vs. private on, [>]–[>]

  specialized gossip on, [>]–[>]

  and speed of spread of gossip, [>]

  and spread of malicious gossip, [>], [>]–[>]

  taste for gossip on, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  unedited information on, [>]–[>]

  WikiLeaks, [>]–[>]

  interpreting gossip, [>]

  in the know, being. See insider knowledge

  Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America (Schickel), [>]

  Isherwood, Christopher, [>]

  Jack Paar Show, [>]

  Jackson, Andrew, [>]

  Jackson, Jesse, [>]

  James, Henry

  disapproval of gossip, [>]–[>]

  gossip about, [>]

  gossip in novels of, [>], [>]

  The Reverberator, [>]–[>]

  Jefferson, Thomas, [>]

  Jessel, George, [>]

  "jet set," [>]

  Johnson, Lyndon, [>]

  Johnson, Samuel, [>]–[>]

  joke telling, [>], [>]

  Jon and Kate Plus [>] (TV show), [>]

  Joubert, Joseph, [>]

  journalism. See also gossip columnists

  and creating buzz, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  exposés and scoops, [>], [>]–[>]

  gossip component, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  on the Internet, [>]–[>]

  investigative, [>], [>]

  Judaism, gossip as sin in, [>]

  Kagan, Elena, [>]–[>]

  Kagan, Yisrael Meir, [>]

  Katz, Bob, [>]

  Kaye, Danny, [>]

  Kazin, Alfred, [>]–[>]

  Keillor, Garrison, [>]

  Kelly, Gene, [>]

  Kelly, Grace, [>]

  Kennedy, Bobby, [>]

  Kennedy, Jacqueline (Jackie Onassis), [>], [>], [>]

  Kennedy, John F.

  and Dickinson, [>]–[>]

  and Dietrich, [>]

  endurance of gossip about, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  love of gossip, [>]

  respect for privacy of, [>]

  Kennedy, Robert, [>]

  Kilgallen, Dorothy, [>]

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., [>]

  kissing and telling, [>]

  Kissinger, Henry, [>], [>], [>]

  klatsch, [>]

  Klein, Jacob, [>]–[>]

  Knickerbocker, Cholly (Maury Paul), [>]

  Korda, Alexander, [>]–[>]

  Kramer, Hilton, [>]–[>]

  Kristol, Bea (Gertrude Himmelfarb), [>]–[>]

  Kristol, Irving, [>]–[>]

  Kundera, Milan, [>]

  La Bruyère, [>]

  La Chétardie, [>]

  Ladurie, Emannuel, [>]

  La Fontaine, Jean de, [>]

  La Guardia, Fiorello, [>], [>]

  Lamb, Caroline, [>]

  Lamb, Charles, [>]

  Lantos, Tom, [>]–[>]

  lashon hara, [>]–[>]

  Last Days of Hitler, The (Trevor-Roper), [>]

  Last Puritan, The (Santayana), [>]

  lawsuits, [>]–[>]. See also libel laws

  leaks, [>]–[>]

  Lee, Ivy, [>]

  Lehman, Ernest, [>]

  Leibovitz, Annie, [>]–[>], [>]

  Leigh, Vivien, [>], [>], [>]

  Lerman, Leo, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Lerner, Max, [>]

  Lessing, Doris, [>]

  Le Tellier, Père, [>]

  letters, indiscretions in, [>]

  Letters from Oxford (Trevor-Roper), [>]

  Lewinsky, Monica, [>], [>]

  Lewis, C. S., [>]–[>]

  Lewis, Sinclair, [>]

  libel laws

  and blog postings, [>]

  and Internet gossip, [>]–[>], [>]

  slander vs. libel, [>]

  truth justification, [>]

  U.S. vs. England, [>]–[>]

  Licensing Act, revocation of, [>]

  Life of Johnson (Boswell), [>], [>]

  Lincoln, Abraham, [>], [>]

  literacy, and interest in gossip, [>]

  literature, gossip-based, [>]–[>]

  Lives of the Poets (Johnson), [>]

  Locke, Richard, [>]

  London
Magazine, [>]

  Louis XIV, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Louis XV, [>]

  Lowell, Robert, [>]

  Loy, Myrna, [>]

  Luce, Henry, [>]

  Lunt, Alfred, [>]

  Lyndon, Andrew, [>]

  Lyons, Leonard, [>]

  MacArthur, Charles, [>]

  MacArthur, Douglas, [>]

  Macfadden, Bernarr, [>]

  Macmillan, Harold, [>]

  Madoff, Bernard, [>]

  Madonna, [>]

  Maine, Duc de, [>]

  Main Street (S. Lewis), [>]

  Maintenon, Mme. de, [>]–[>]

  Malamud, Bernard, [>]

  malicious gossip. See also damage

  in academic settings, [>]–[>], [>]

  creation and dispersing of, [>]–[>]

  effects of, [>]

  ethics of, [>]

  and interest in human character, [>]

  on the Internet, [>]–[>]

  purveyors of, [>], [>]

  truth factor and, [>]

  Mandarins, The (Beauvoir), [>]–[>]

  Mann, Thomas, [>]

  Mann, William d'Alton, [>]

  marital infidelity, gossip about, [>]

  Martin, Peter, [>]

  Marx, Groucho, [>]

  Master, The (Tóibín), [>]

  Maugham, W. Somerset, [>]

  Maupassant, Guy de, [>]

  Maxwell, Elsa, [>]

  McCain, John, [>]

  McCarthy, Joseph, [>], [>]

  McCarthy, Mary, [>]

  McCullers, Carson, [>]

  McEwan, Ian, [>], [>]

  McGee, Frank, [>]

  McKelway, St. Clair, [>]–[>]

  McNamara, Robert, [>]

  McPhee, John, [>]

  McQueen, Steve, [>]

  Memoirs (Saint-Simon), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  memoirs, [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also self-gossip

  men, gossip among, [>]

  Mencken, H. L., [>]

  Merkin, Daphne, [>]

  Metternich, [>]

  Meyers, Jeffrey, [>]

  Middle of the Journey, The (L. Trilling), [>]

  Miller, Arthur, [>]–[>], [>]

  Miramax, and Talk magazine, [>]–[>]

  Mitchell, Joseph, [>]–[>]

  Mitchum, Robert, [>]

  Mitford, Nancy, [>], [>]

  mitzvot, [>]–[>]

  Mogambo (movie), [>]

  Monroe, Marilyn, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Montesquiou, Robert de, [>], [>]

  moral instruction through gossip, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Morath, Inge, [>]

  Mosley, Max, [>]–[>]

  Mosley, Oswald, [>]

  movie stars, [>]. See also celebrities, celebrity

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, [>], [>]

  Murdoch, Rupert, [>]–[>]

  Murray, J. A., [>]–[>]

  name-dropping, [>]

  Namier, Lewis, [>]

  National Endowment for the Arts, [>], [>]–[>]

  National Endowment for the Humanities, [>]–[>]

  National Enquirer, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Nelson, Lars, [>]–[>]

  Nero, [>]–[>]

  networkers, [>]–[>]

  Newgate Prison, [>]

  Newhouse, Samuel I., [>], [>]

  New Journalism, [>]–[>]

  news, gossip as, [>]–[>], [>]

  news aggregators, [>]

  News of the World, [>]

  newspapers. See also gossip columnists; journalism

  England, 20th century, [>], [>]

  entertainment function, [>]–[>]

  gossip as news in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  political scandal in, [>]–[>]

  professional gossips, [>]–[>]

  social norms and decorum, [>]–[>]

  Newsweek, [>], [>]

  New York Daily News, [>], [>]

  New Yorker, The

  Brown's editorship of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  and changes in decorum/social tone, [>]

  Hersh articles in, [>]–[>]

  profile of Hemingway in, [>]

  profile of Winchell in, [>]–[>]

  quote about Black, [>]

  Shawn's editorship of, [>], [>]

  New York Graphic, [>]

  New York Herald, [>]

  New York magazine, [>]

  New York Mirror, [>]

  New York Post

  articles attacking Winchell, [>]

  Page Six column, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  New York Times

  "Accusations of Sex Abuse Trail Doctor," [>]–[>]

  and changes in decorum/social tone, [>]

  on end of Winchell's column, [>]

  gossip as news in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  on Internet privacy, [>]

  on the NEA, [>]

  "The Walter Winchells of Cyberspace," [>]–[>]

  Niven, David, [>]

  Nixon, Richard, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Noailles, Duc de, [>]–[>]

  noblesse de robe, [>]

  nontrivial gossip, [>]–[>]

  Northcliffe, Lord, [>]

  Northwestern University, gossip session about, [>]–[>]

  notoriety, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  novels, gossip in, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Nureyev, Rudolf, [>]

  O'Brien, Conan, [>]

  O'Brien, Conor Cruise, [>]

  obscenity, [>], [>]–[>]

  Odets, Clifford, [>]

  O'Donnell, Rosie, [>]

  office gossip, [>]–[>]

  O'Hara, John, [>]

  Olivier, Laurence, [>]–[>], [>]

  Onassis, Aristotle, [>], [>], [>]

  Onassis, Jacqueline. See Kennedy, Jacqueline (Jackie Onassis)

  On Rumors (Sunstein), [>]

  opinions, in gossip, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Oprah (TV show), [>], [>]

  O'Reilly Factor, The (TV show), [>]

  Orléans, Duc d', [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Orwell, George, [>]

  O'Sullivan, Maureen, [>]

  Other Garden, The (Wyndham), [>]–[>]

  Other Voices, Other Rooms (McCullers), [>]

  Oudin, Melanie, [>]–[>]

  outing. See gay gossip

  Oxford University

  gossip about, [>]–[>]

  Tina Brown at, [>]

  Oz, Amos, [>]

  Ozick, Cynthia, [>]

  Page Six, New York Post, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Pagesix.com, [>]

  Palmeiro, Rafael, [>]

  Paris Review, [>]

  Parsons, Louella, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Partisan Review, [>]

  Pascal, Blaise, [>]

  Patterson, Joseph Medill, [>]

  Paul, Maury (Cholly Knickerbocker), [>]

  Pecoil, [>]

  People magazine, [>], [>]–[>]

  Persian Gulf War, [>]–[>]

  personality, cult of, [>]–[>]. See also celebrities, celebrity

  Persons and Places (Santayana), [>]

  Persuasion (Austen), [>]

  Peter the Great, [>]

  Philip, Prince, [>]

  Philip V, [>]

  Picture of Dorian Gray, The (movie), [>]

  Pinter, Harold, [>]

  Plato, [>]

  plausibility, and good gossip, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

 

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