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...Whyatt as the "Fleshly Poet"--a dig at Wilde--is the very essence of Oscar; mincing his way delicately across the stage, he inevitably gets a laugh every time he opens his quietly disdainful mouth. Whyatt is upstaged only by his Buttercupesque admirer, the Lady Jane, played with waspish hauteur by Dorothea Schmidt (she is particularly magnificent at the opening of the Second Act, when she is discovered in a glade singing a plaintive lay, and accompanying herself on a double bass). Her singing voice I can only describe as a magnificent and artfully manipulated foghorn...
...gossipy memoir in McCall's magazine, Dwight Eisenhower's former Cabinet Secretary Robert Gray revealed that the tart tongue of ex-Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams did not always spare even Ike himself. Adams, wrote Gray, was inclined to be particularly waspish over the President's habit of slipping away in the afternoons ("Good God, is he playing golf again?") and at occasional presidential demands for ultra-swift action ("What does he think I am, a goddam gazelle...
FELIX FRANKFURTER REMINISCES. More than 50 hours of recorded talk in answer to questions from a Columbia University historian show the many sides of the waspish, brainy lawyer and teacher whom F.D.R. elevated to the Supreme Court. Sometimes flat, more often incisive. Frankfurter's chatter is sure to supply many a footnote to the history...
Middle-Aged Spread. In the old days, The New Yorker gibed at success and played to an intellectual-not a financial -snobbery. The tone was waspish and metropolitan. Ross scorned the opinions of "the old lady in Dubuque,"* but the present magazine, like many of its ads, seems aimed directly at suburban ladies from coast to coast. Last month, after 31 years, The New Yorker finally abolished its New York regional edition...
...Snow married one of his earliest literary critics, handsome Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, whose books, largely about marriage and the private worlds of modern people, are less ambitious but far better crafted than her husband's; her most recent: The Unspeakable Skipton, a witty, waspish caricature of the famed adventurer, "Baron Corvo." The Snows share a ten-room London flat and a 6½-year-old son. Snow likes to be in the worldly swim and throws parties conspicuously free of fellow novelists. Sir Charles is a shade stuffy about most 20th century authors; of another practicing panoramist, Lawrence...