Word: flippants
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...drive for economic growth. Many industrialists and economists have joined with Matsushita, himself the symbol of Japan's high-growth ideology, in calling for a slower, steadier pace. Kazutaka Kikawada, chairman of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., complains that Japan's growth drive has led to a "flippant materialism," destroyed much of the country's beauty, and created environmental devastation that threatens to lead to social disruptions. Adds Professor Jun Eto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology: "The production cult is being deflated. It has simply gone out of fashion...
Candice Bergen is not the daughter of a king, but a ventriloquist. Otherwise she conveys all the insouciance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fabled Daisy Buchanan. Beautiful, rich, intelligent and flippant, Candice can well afford drawing-room sallies and wry self-deprecation. Recalling growing up as Edgar Bergen's daughter, she says: "One may not turn out exactly normal when you have two wooden dummies for brothers, each with his own room." Or her days with the jet set: "That was a valuable exposure to the ultimate in boredom." Or her screen performances: "I'm great...
Michael Schiffer's Enobarbus was monotone but fitfully engaging. His death scene redeemed his absurd flippant, balmy, detachment at the opening. He read every line the same (piano) but it was an agreeable reading. Timothy Clark as Caesar gave disquieting signs of yet another misconceived, automaton, bloodless ruler, but gradually infused this crucial role (for it is a drama of East and West, both imperfectly noble) with the life and subtlety it demands. Clark gave dramatic center to each of his scenes, and so offered the finest performance of the evening...
...been commissioned to write a suitably romantic score "with a lot of fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing, satisfying, but also rather flippant. When the time approaches for him to leave, however, he proposes on a whim that they fly off to Las Vegas for a night. On a whim-and perhaps on the hope of something more-she accepts...
...then, with the understanding that it may not be a counter culture forever. In the long run, it could conceivably found the culture of post-technocratic, post-Western man. This consideration should not make people in the counter-culture self-righteous and oracular; but it should make them less flippant about what they are doing. Their experiments and explorations have barely begun. They cannot be allowed to stagnate or degenerate. The people in the counter have to assume a new intentness in their quest for human happiness, and a new earnestness in their vision of what will...