Word: puckishly
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...over the years supports the truth of this statement, mathematicians have never been able to prove it for all cases. Hence there remained the gnawing feeling that there just might be one instance where, say, five colors were needed instead of only four. Indeed, when Scientific American's puckish columnist Martin Gardner last year announced that such a "counter example" had indeed been found, it stunned math buffs everywhere-until they realized the claim was an April Fool...
...Moynihan was named Ambassador to India by Nixon and Ambassador to the U.N. by Ford. He was expected to be no great shakes as a campaigner, but he seems to be catching on. With his polka-dot bow tie, his artfully rumpled look, appearing a mite donnish and inevitably puckish, he cuts a rare figure on the campaign trail. But then, no one ever accused him of being conventional. Bubbling over with ideas, he sometimes lets his thoughts race ahead of his prudence. But so far he has not made another gaffe on the order of "benign neglect," the phrase...
Higgins does not tell this story. He shows his characters telling it. to each other. Oddly, they all speak the same puckish periphrasis. Listening to them is like sucking a persimmon. They are also regularly funny. When Hunter's wife complains about the violence in a film they have just seen, he reminds her that "nobody made you go there, you know. Matter of fact, I think I hadda pay the guy about six bucks, I think it was, before he'd let either one of us in." Hunter's sidekick facetiously admits to having no brains...
...Clarissa (1748), the villainous seducer, Lovelace, happened to be the Duke of Wharton. Robinson Crusoe was based on the desert-island experiences of one Alexander Selkirk off the coast of Chile, and Tristram Shandy caused not-always-comic shocks of recognition among the York neighbors of the puckish Laurence Sterne...
...perfect pairing, Oistrakh and Richter, on the most famous of the Brahms sonatas for violin and piano. This recording was made during a 1972 Moscow recital, 2½ years before the death of the great Soviet violinist. With loving attention to detail, at times unexpectedly puckish. Richter traced each phrase. No question, however, the show belonged to Oistrakh. Springlike and tender or with great gusts of Wagnerian passion, the music flowed from his bow with the ease of raindrops chasing down a windowpane...