His watery blue eyes twinkled as he smoked, and in his thick Hungarian accent relived days of splendor and majesty in the great woods, the Carpathian mountains of his native land.
The Beale summer home, which supplied the documentary's title, is displayed in its days of splendor, with Big Edie presiding over a salon of hangers-on and nursing illusions that she could have been a great singer if only.
As we monitored the region and sea lanes around Yemen, it stood to reason that the port of Aden Queen Victoriaa's first imperial acquisition in 1839, a coaling station for Britannia in its days of splendor) would become an American port of call.
He is the author of "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor".
TAD FRIEND Of all the books published this year, only one burns in memory: Tad Friend's "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor".
This is a belated response to a Sept. 27, 2009, review of Tad Friend's book "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor".
Tad Friend, a staff writer for this magazine, has a new book out, "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor".
My friend Digby Baltzell — mentioned in the review of "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor," by Tad Friend (Sept . 27 — never claimed to have coined the term WASP.
By Thessaly La Force September 27, 2009 Tad Friend, a staff writer for this magazine, has a new book out, "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor".
As Philip Roth wrote, "When people say to themselves 'I want to be happy,' they could as well be saying 'I want to be George Plimpton.'" Tad Friend, a staff writer for this magazine, has a new book out, "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor".
I say this with a book sitting before me on my desk: Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, the just-released family memoir by Tad Friend, the New Yorker staff writer.
