Word: nosegay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...variegated nosegay of American letters, the Deep South's poetry of decadence stinks like a long-since-wilted magnolia, but Author Wilkinson magically refreshes its fragrance with images new as dew: "A green snake weaved around the rocks, rolling like a liquid in hot glass until the grass pulled it in and it disappeared." Language like that explains why the late Randall Jarrell described Miss Wilkinson as "the most talented writer of prose I ever taught...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. The gifted APA repertory company puts a new wrapping on a 30-year-old comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The Sycamore family may not seem hilariously outlandish today, but it is still fondly engaging-a tender nosegay tossed to an earlier age of innocence...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. The gifted APA repertory company puts a new wrapping on a 30-year-old comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The Sycamore family may not seem hilariously outlandish today, but it is still fondly engaging-a tender nosegay tossed to an earlier age of innocence...
...Parsley Nosegay. Another pet peeve of Villard's is the widely held picture of professional diplomats as a "striped: pants brigade of effete creatures." Instead of striped pants, today's diplomat wears three-button business suits. Instead of scintillating soirees, he attends paralyzing parties where his innards are assailed by "searing sauces and alcoholic depth bombs." Many is the career man, says Villard, who echoes the plaint of the late French diplomat Jules Henri after a ten-year tour in Washington: "I drank, God help my digestion, 35,000 cocktails in line of duty...
Long before Nielsen ratings are printed, TV executives, admen, sponsors, and producers have read Jack Gould, for he is the television critic of the New York Times. As such, he holds in one hand the biggest machete and in the other the biggest nosegay possessed by any TV critic. Always fair, faultlessly responsible, he is on rare occasions trenchant, and on even rarer ones funny - as he was recently when he hailed Joe Valachi as a style-setter for Hollywood mobsters of the future...