Word: snappish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pollyanna Adams. Even Hubert Humphrey turned snappish. "You won't make this country better," he said, "by leading from fear, despair and doubt." If some "spilt-milk politicians," he added, in a speech prepared for a dairymen's convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign...
PRESIDENT Pusey's appearance yesterday before the Student-Faculty Advisory Council ought to silence the snappish ad hominem attacks to which he is sometimes subjected...
This week the publication of a revised and expanded version of his 1956 book, The Listener's Musical Companion, shows that Haggin, at 66, is as snappish as ever.* "Accepted opinion finds greatness in every note set down on paper by a great composer like Bach or Mozart," he writes. "I hear in some works dull products of a routine exercise of expert craftsmanship. Accepted opinion holds some symphonies and concertos of Brahms to be works of tremendous profundity; I hear in them only the pretension to profundity." Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Mussorgsky rank higher with Haggin than with most...
Demand for Involvement. One of the main features of his administration, from top to bottom, is the demand for involvement. Often he telephones city agencies without identifying himself and, if the voice on the other end is rude or indifferent, administers a mayoral dressing down. He can be snappish and imperious, exclaiming "I am the mayor!" or "Didn't you come prepared?" His disdain for established procedure puts down bureaucrats and raises hackles, but it gets things done; when he found that it would take months to appropriate a few thousand dollars to install fire-hydrant sprinklers in slum...
...entirely of rebukes and insults? The result is the Wolfe Publishing Co.'s Insult Dictionary, subtitled, "How to Be Abusive in Five Languages," which has already sold some 50,000 copies across the Atlantic, promises to sell thousands more in its forthcoming U.S. edition. With 127 pages of snappish asperities in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, the Insult Dictionary provides useful tips for conversations with surly cab drivers, arrogant bank tellers, clumsy hairdressers, nose-picking grocers and road hogs...