Word: waspish
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...celebrities she covered - and often skewered. Until her death at 52 last week of still undetermined causes, she remained a triple threat of the communications world. She wrote a daily gossip column, "The Voice of Broadway," which was syndicated in 146 papers; she appeared as a panelist with a waspish will to win on the TV show What's My Line?; and she covered occasional front-page events for the Hearstpapers with a flair rarely equaled by the competition. On any assignment she made herself so conspicuous that she often became part of the story. After Dr. Sam Sheppard...
...really very interesting, Fred," muses his waspish wife. "Take away the eyebrows and what have you got?" What you have is a lumbering, complacent insurance salesman of 27 who likes baseball, television, Peanuts, sex and practically everybody he knows. He is too unendurably dull for Wife Alison, a nattering know-it-all who reads Proust and thinks life should be lived as a work of art. She leaves him, goes back to Stapleton, Pa. Shocked into action, Fred quits his job and solemnly sets out to discover...
...doubt about Quebec's Liberal leadership among provincial voters. The Conservatives would love to topple Pearson's government and force new elections. But the party is in the midst of an intramural fight over the leadership of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who at 69 is growing waspish and curmudgeonly, but refuses to step down. Until that battle is decided, no one wants elections...
...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Toward the end of his life, the novelist wrote these memoirs of the '20s in Paris when he was young and poor. The result is a poetic word picture of Paris, a loving one of his first wife, and waspish anecdotes of Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and especially the Fitzgeralds, who are remembered with malice...
...less intact: he could still see, read and speak. Most important, he could still write-with a ballpoint pen. It took three pens, and more agony than he may care to admit, to write Episode. The fact that it was written, that it reflects so much of his oldtime waspish wit and wordcraft, is the most substantial evidence of Eric Hodgins' recovery...