Word: waspishness
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Haydn: Symphony No. 97 in C (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Waspish Sir Thomas and his orchestra-men race over the hurdles like steeplechasers. Performance: good...
Next day, by just about the same ratio, they voted back into office U.E.'s Big Three: waspish Albert Fitzgerald, no Red himself, as U.E.'s figurehead president; Communist-wired James J. Matles and Julius Emspak, U.E.'s real bosses, as top organizer and secretary-treasurer...
This week, a scant majority of Congressmen remained in Washington. They were exhausted and waspish-from the heat and eight years of overwork.* When they or their successors return in January, they will get more pay for less work-but work of better quality...
Some critics recalled that Bach himself had been content with a choir of 17 voices. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "Any chorus of 200 can make a majestic noise; and Mr. Ifor's [sic] chorus makes the most agreeable, the most brilliant and bright-sounding choral fortissimo I have ever heard. . . . But how much richer and grander it would be if Mr. Jones would cut his chorus down about 80 per cent and his orchestra by half...
Harold Laski, British Labor's international problem child, got hit by another spitball, but went right on reciting. Conservative M.P. Cyril Osborne urged Parliament to send beefy Ernest Bevin to the U.S. to offset waspish Laski's influence. Declared Osborne: let the Government "keep some of their wandering minstrels from the London School of Economics at home." Minstrel Laski's proposal of the week: let the U.S. relax international tension right now by destroying its atomic bomb stockpile...