Word: waif
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater snob than herself ("God is like a very famous person to whom an introduction is impossible"), she says, "Do I have to come at you and cut you down?" She has cut her son (Colgate Salsbury) down to a homosexual, her daughter (Marcie Hubert) to a bewildered emotional waif, her husband (Don McHenry) to a mumbler of prayers in his pillow...
...clothesline, or vaulting through space to pounce on someone's stiff neck with a chiropractical jerk, or cheerily offering to chase the bats out of the guest bedroom, Eileen Heckart is wildly and wistfully amusing. Garbed in the remnants of remnants, she is an endearing clown-waif in the classic Chaplin tradition...
...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this author has a Chaplinesque flair for comic mischief. In her latest novel, an aging 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...
...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this comic author loves to unstuff shirts, unstarch pomposity, and rip the cotton batting out of fuzzy minds. In her latest novel, an aging, 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...
...WAIF & SAFE. H. L. Mencken called attention to the native U.S. talent for "reducing complex concepts to starkest abbreviations." From O.K. to K.O., Americans have long coined initial-born words. But what began as playful sport has turned into contagion and verbal smog (smoke and fog). Just to describe the new rash of alphabetease, linguists were forced to invent a new word: acronym (from the Greek akros for tip, onyma for name), which first appeared in dictionaries in 1947. Most insidious breeders are public relations experts, adept at spawning the punch word that sums up an organization, then...