Word: fusspot
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When Alexander Kerensky proposed a measure to abolish the death penalty in Russia, Czar Nicholas II was opposed to the notion. What would become of discipline in the army, he wanted to know? Kerensky, who was a bit of a fusspot but a far more decent man than any of the Bolsheviks who replaced him, tried gently to explain to the last of the Romanovs that the law he proposed was designed to preserve the Czar's own life...
...that Matthau always gets his way One of his ideas is to exchange roles, play the part of the puttering fusspot husband "because it would more of a challenge," and let Carney roar throuah the role of Oscar. But with a hit it might be dangerous to switch...
Your Sept. 3 issue on Israeli Scientist Zarchin defines nudnik as a "pedantic fusspot." There are many delicate shades of meaning in the word, and TIME'S definition may well fall within its subtle nuances, but I have always been brought up to think of and to use the word as meaning simply "a bore...
...Palestine in 1947, the pale little man patiently trotted from ministry to ministry, haunting anterooms and grabbing coat sleeves. Desperately he fired off letters to Premier Ben-Gurion that were answered by an evasive secretary. "No one knew me," recalls Zarchin He was referred to as a "nudnik" (pedantic fusspot). "There were lots of cranks in Israel, and everyone thought...
Your review of the cinema, The Lost Moment [TIME, Dec 8], based on the adumbrated novel by Henry James, the scribbler (to use the vulgar expression), is sufficient, I think, to suggest the ponderous prose, the-some personages might almost label-circum-locuted prose of Henry, the dear fusspot, James, but, may one reflect, and I do appreciate your unwonted forbearance, that the pages of TIME are not precisely the place-one may relievedly observe-where one expects to encounter . . . the ambiguous, attenuated, ' grayed verbiage, the niceties of the vaporous review mentioned somewhere above...
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