Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anglicans and one United Reformed Church member, call their paperback collection of essays The Myth of God Incarnate. They make no claim to being original. The divinity of Jesus has been under more or less continual attack from the Christian left for a century and a half. Why the flap then? For one thing, Britain remains fairly conservative. As the book's preface puts it, belief in Christ's incarnation has "long been something of a shibboleth" in England. Besides that, one contributor, Oxford Theologian Maurice Wiles, was for five years chairman of the Church of England...
...somewhat streamlined cover format. More often in recent years, we have wanted to announce to our readers an important second feature. In the shop parlance here at TIME, this is known as an "inside cover." To bill this feature consistently! clearly and (we hope) attractively, we have devised the flap in the upper right-hand corner of this week's cover. Another new element is not a matter of design: the symbol in the lower left-hand corner is a universal product code that will help TIME'S distributors keep track by computer of their volume of sales...
...really enjoyed Florence Cadigan's letter [June 20] regarding my eggless, butterless, milkless cake. I didn't know that my refusal to divulge my recipe would cause such a flap. I have received phone calls from all over the country and have freely given my recipe. Actually I have no objections whatever to giving it to anyone-I merely said that in a fit of pique...
Major technological innovations, it seems, have often been rejected by large segments of the public possessed by an almost Luddite aversion to change. That still seems true today. Witness the current international flap over whether the Concorde supersonic passenger jet will be allowed to land at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport. Supporters of the Concorde hail the sleek, needle-nosed jet as a revolutionary globe-shrinker. Meanwhile, legions of determined opponents damn it as a threat to their community's quality of life and a menace to the world's environment...
...rehearsed gesture appear spontaneous. But the spoken interludes in An Evening of Bernstein are only too obviously filler between songs. The audience--and probably the cast as well-will wish them over soon. Flynn and Smith are especially poor actors; apparently unaware of the meaning of their speeches, they flap their hands, grin fixedly, and fail to enunciate. Ives is saved only by the humor in his lines and his basso profundo. The set--which seems designed to test the cast's mountaineering ability--does not lessen the stiffness of the dramatics, the accompanists are pedestrian. But Ellen Wasserman...