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...understandable if you're having a little trouble deciding how to allocate your theatre time. So here's a little tip to help you prioritize: go see "Feed the Monkey" at the Loeb Ex. It has all the qualifications for a great show--it's funny, farcical, flippant and, of course, free...

Author: By Deborah T. Kovsky, | Title: Feed the Monkey Offers Frenzy and Fun at the Ex | 3/25/1993 | See Source »

...Maimonis bantered with the students, it seemed that, despite their outward flippant attitudes, her message was indeed being carefully considered...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Not Just For Homemakers Anymore... | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

Michele Forman's feature in the October 29 Crimson, which outlines the risk created by this project to an endangered species of red squirrel, exposes Harvard and its partners as acting with flippant disregard for the spirit of the Endangered species...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Waffling Hurts Squirrels | 10/31/1990 | See Source »

...Cela's flippant disdain for authority -- of whatever sort -- earned him the respect of exiled Spaniards who might otherwise have excoriated him for his allegiance in the civil war. In later years his fierce independence won increasing regard. He was among those, after Franco's death, who were asked to write a new Spanish constitution. Beyond that, his best novels, with their violent, poetic hyper-realities, affirmed a tradition that stretches from Cervantes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Risky Life | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Baltimore dealt with the inquiry in a confrontational and almost flippant manner. Except for a scanty correction in Cell, Baltimore never even attempted to rebut the allegations that the Cell project was a product of wholesale deception...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Cleaning Up the Lab | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

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