Word: puckishly
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Reporter-Researcher Eileen Shields, who worked on this week's cover story, points out that Church's puckish outlook extends to writing-and singing-gag lyrics about the journalist's lot. "His voice is perfectly suited to spoofing," says Shields. "He's a sort of Tom Lehrer, well blipped...
...puckish, progressive bimonthly, the Critic, is remarkably healthy -abetted by a brace of profitable newsletters, Protestant and Catholic, a series of packaged sermon topics, and the Thomas More Book Club...
...aristocracy would do well here, much better than it is doing in my country," observed British Novelist and M.P. Maurice Edelman on a visit to the U.S. The author of All on a Summer's Night went on to offer some puckish notions as to how an American aristocracy might be titled. First minister in the court of King Richard would be Spiro, Duke of Maryland; then would come such lesser dignitaries as Knight of the Garter Henry Kissinger and Companion of Honor Bebe Rebozo. In the Midwest, it would be Earl Humphrey of Minnesota. And in the Southwest...
...herself. It shows in her laughter, a corroboree of chuckles, whinnies and convulsions. And it shows in her writing. Simple in style, mundane in subject matter, her thrice-weekly column for 200 newspapers (including the Chicago Sun-Times and the Boston Globe) has a title that precisely conveys her puckish point of view. She calls it "At Wit's End." What most tickles Erma, a former women's news reporter for the Dayton Journal Herald, is her unfashionable fascination with being a housewife. Her beat, she once wrote, is the utility room...
...loose in ideology-perfectly willing to blend liberal with conservative programs. He is loose in party affiliation, having served both Democratic and Republican administrations. He even acts loose. Amid the good gray personalities of the Nixon Administration Moynihan sports sideburns, drinks his whisky straight and displays a puckish humor...