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If the express is streamlined, if we exercise good judgment in starting and stopping and braking, we can avoid being boresome or disagreeable. But only a cultivated personality, only one who really "has something to say," can become an interesting and worth-while conversationalist. Bruce Barton wrote, "My observation is that, generally speaking, poverty of speech is the outward evidence of poverty of mind." Someone in the Saturday Evening Post i This chapter on background is rewritten directly from the author's article, "Background for Conversation" in the Marianist, May, 1948. Many sentences and paragraphs are identical with it. |
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