Word: waspish
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...from Mars" radio broadcast and in 1941 landed the first of her hundred or so screen roles in Citizen Kane (as Kane's mother). An Oscar nominee for five films including Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (she never won), she was best known in recent years as Endora, the waspish mother witch of TV's durable Bewitched series...
...again, a touch more vulgar than before, word-playing his way through another marital war. This one includes a husband who develops a yen for his surrogate mother-in-law. John Cheever and Bernard Malamud have collections of short stories, both domestic, the one (The World of Apples) waspish and suburban, the other (Rembrandt's Hat) Jewish and urban. Evan S. Connell Jr., once more roving far from the Bridges of Kansas City, has produced Points for a Compass Rose, a poetic meditation upon the pain and perplexity of life, with instances taken from history and myth...
...23rd Century, Star Trek revolves around the adventures of the Starship Enterprise and its interplanetal, international, interracial crew. There's the Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows...
...debate. A complex man, Luce was both opinionated and open-minded; giving orders went against his grain. Persuasion was the art he preferred, and indeed he emerges from Elson's pages as perhaps too easy a boss. He sometimes took stands without following them through and wrote waspish memos that repose in his files marked "Not sent...
...conscious of the rising feeling of Jewishness here and the desire of not being sucked in as a Waspish Jew," Gomes said. "Their presence in the University can't be reconciled by saying 'We're glad to have you here so nice of you to come if there's anything I can do please let me know.'" The large Jewish segment of the Harvard community is yet another aspect of what Gomes calls the "creative tension" around Memorial Church today...