Word: waspish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once waspish Malcolm Muggeridge, a recent convert to Christianity, writes movingly in his book Something Beautiful for God of putting her on a train in Calcutta...
...Saracen queen Armida. It is a spectacular mixture of pagan magic, military pomp, vocal fireworks and other trappings of the Italian Baroque operatic style, then the rage in London. During the "Bird Song" of Almirena, Rinaldo's true beloved, a flock of sparrows was let loose. The waspish essayist Joseph Addison had fun with that in The Spectator. "There have been so many flights of them let loose that it is feared the house will never get rid of them; and that in other plays they make their entrance in very wrong and improper scenes; besides the inconveniences which...
...lampoons equal to Patrick Oliphant's vaudeville sketches or Paul Conrad's acidulous critiques. The competition for attention may have reduced the impact of graphic art everywhere. Yet the cartoon seems to be gaining influence. No photograph damaged Lyndon Johnson so much as David Levine's waspish drawing of L.B. J. lifting his shirt to reveal a gall bladder scar-in the shape of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon once admitted, "I wouldn't start the morning by looking at Herblock." Even President Ford, gazing forlornly at a gallery of U.S. political cartoons, recently conceded...
...these questions because strangely enough, on a campus where many brothers have the talent for football, there are more brothers in the WASPish final clubs than there are on the entire varsity football squad. This fact clearly indicates that something is wrong with the football program at Harvard. It is amazing that the Crimson could be 1974 Ivy League co-champions when one considers the abundance of black talent that has been left by the wayside...
...book and the various loans to associates, the Judiciary Committee focused on larger questions, stretching but by no means snapping Rockefeller's capacity to respond. The committee's concern was, fundamentally, the possibility of unceasing conflict of interest if Rockefeller should become President. With a kind of waspish persistence that the Senators had not employed, Democrat Don Edwards wanted to know how Rocky could not avoid making decisions that would affect his own or his family's holdings...