Word: flippant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This answer was neither flippant nor unusual. It points to an Administration attitude which is as dangerous as it is secretive. Through occasional, indefinite government releases, the American knows vaguely of a crisis, but its extent or imminence have been carefully withheld from him. No wonder then that he is apathetic to atomic threats...
...Haydn songs were gems. Works of his maturity, they are joyous without being flippant, poignant yet optimistic. The first of the two sets of Brahms waltzes is the more widely known, perhaps because it has fewer solo passages and thus is more often performed by choruses; perhaps also because it maintains a gayer, more spontaneous mood than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although...
...must confess to having been angry enough to want to see my complaint in print. What upset me was the wholley unwarrented treatment of the various religious groups in the Yearbook (317) References to magic and so forth in the article on the Christian Scientists, a flippant remark about money and parties in the one on the Catholic Club, and others, none of them worthy of reproduction, set a new high for bad taste...
...want to protest TIME's flippant treatment of "Let's Secede from Texas." Any unbiased observer would agree that it was exquisitely factual. C. M. CHRISTENSEN Los Angeles...
...Brahms Variations, long and repetitions, need a varied, carefully proportioned performance if their basic grandeur is to get through. Beyer's contrasting treatment of the heaven-storming passages and the more flippant variations was enormously effective. He sometimes injected a bit of ham by excess rubato and uncalled for rolling chords, but at least it was obvious that his interpretation was the result of careful thought...