Word: waggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first she helped staff members cull their files to decide what should be consigned to the wastebasket and what saved. Anything of historical interest went to the fledgling archives: Henry Luce's 1922 plans for the launch of TIME; March of Time radio transcripts; files from waggish Fortune editor and publisher Eric Hodgins, author of the best seller Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ("He didn't write a memo to his secretary that wasn't hysterical," says Felsher...
...will not, of course -- and foreign policy driven in fits and starts by intrusive messages of turmoil from abroad only ensures repeated buffetings. In one of his waggish moments, Henry Kissinger once commented, "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." Clinton, along with society in America and the West at large, seems to take this attitude in earnest. Last May, when Bosnian Serbs refused to follow his peace script, Clinton lamented with almost pathetic candor, "I felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than...
...display more "spirit," more "energy" in preaching reform. The President, he said, should evoke the styles of F.D.R. and J.F.K. After delivering that message during a Thursday luncheon with senior Clinton advisers, Kerrey went to an afternoon movie, What's Love Got to Do with It. That prompted one waggish official to suggest that Tina Turner be enlisted to lobby the Senator...
Meanwhile, what concerns old hands at the New Yorker is whether another generation will recognize it. "In the past five years," maintains a key editor, "we have simply witnessed the twitching of the corpse. Now the body is really dead." The staff's waggish valedictory for the magazine as they have known it -- "Si-yonara" -- shows a clear awareness of who is really shaping the changes that lie ahead. As one of them says, "What we've learned is that when you're as rich and powerful as Si Newhouse, you can do exactly what you want...