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...Manhattan critics were not moved to sympathy. They practically ordered Ed off the air. He responded by firing off a waspish letter after each review, dissecting the critic's writing, speculating about his (or her) neurotic problems, and offering to meet him in Central Park with shotguns at ten paces. Says Ed, with satisfaction: "They really burn after they get one of my letters. Jack Gould called up blazing about a letter I wrote, and I asked him: 'What are you so hot about? I just put my opinion of you in a personal letter. You spread your...
...week U.C.L.A.'s waspish coach, Henry ("Red") Sanders, was as sarcastic as a top sergeant with sore feet. Sportswriters had named his team the best in the country, and he was determined to cut his players down to fighting size. By gametime, they had got the idea; they were taut as they waited for the kickoff to open the 1955 season...
...usually for having been notably wrong in their judgments. A case in point: Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904), 19th century Europe's most renowned and most recalcitrant critic, who for 40 years mercilessly shredded Wagnerian operas, won painful immortality when Wagner wrote him into Meistersinger as the waspish Beckmesser. But perhaps the most remarkable music critic of all time, a man who later made his mark in wider literary fields, was George Bernard Shaw. A new selection from his weekly criticisms for London's The Star and The World (Shaw on Music; Doubleday Anchor Books; 95?) proves that Critic...
...Prosecution. Attlee plainly disliked it, but in his thin, waspish voice, he built up a case against the burly Welshman that could not be controverted. Bevan, said his leader, had publicly decried his party's support for the SEATO pact, West German rearmament, and disputed Attlee's endorsement of NATO's nuclear strategy...
Woman's World (20th Century-Fox) is a petticoat version of Executive Suite, with the big job depending this time as much on the wife as on the man. The waspish corporation boss (Clifton Webb) summons his three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde...