Word: spivishly
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David is only one of the embassy oddballs, mostly relatives, with whom the narrator-heroine Fanny has to cope in Don't Tell Alfred. Another is Son Basil, full of spivish schemes such as a telly-rest coach for British tourists whose feet and palates are weak: "When they gets to the place they've come to seethe Prado, say, or some old world hill town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like...
...Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete his ginmill to the ruin of the summer dwellers' dunes. Author Waller neatly wrings a lemon twist of satire from the hectic meeting...
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