Word: waspish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scribbled on the plinth. Such is the case of Britain's T. S. Eliot. Now he has had the ultimate accolade: a full-and fancy-dress parody. In the season's least subtle anagram, it is signed Myra Buttle; it represents the rebuttal to Eliot of a waspish and clever Cambridge lecturer in Far Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests...
...talk, of course, was witty and waspish, pithy and pulverizing, often profound; but "the slovenly particularities" of the man were never forgotten by Directors Alan Schneider and Seymour Robbie, or by Makeup Man Bob O'Bradovich, who helped make Peter Ustinov's Johnson the goutiest, twitchingest, most scarred and scrofulous hulk of a man ever to wobble across the TV screen. It took 36-year-old British Actor Ustinov two hours to glue down his beard, stuff himself with padding, and secure the five-piece foam latex mask that had been modeled on Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated...
...Senile patients (up to age 92) who had been moody and withdrawn or waspish and argumentative became happier and easier to get along with on iproniazid...
...Democratic enemies, covert and overt, in Massachusetts. Congressman John McCormack is one example, although the foxy old House majority leader has recently been talking pro-Kennedy for all he is worth. The mutual esteem between Kennedy and Governor Foster Furcolo is at best on-again-off-again; some waspish Bostonians attribute it to the theory that "Gaelic and garlic don't mix." But Jack Kennedy is beyond any question his state's best vote-getter. His Democratic renomination is assured. The real difficulty is in finding a reputable Republican to run against...
...Colin's latest book alone that accounted for the waspish notices. Since success plucked at his turtlenecked sweater, Author Wilson has revealed a bumptious streak of humorless selfimportance: "I am the most serious man of our age." Early this year, the most serious man of our age proved that life can be dangerous for an Outsider inadvertently caught indoors (TIME, March 4). His girl friend's father nearly scrambled the egghead with a horsewhip after bursting in on the cozy couple with some gaslit stage dialogue: "Aha, Wilson, the game...