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...fifth victory in five finishes in Great Britain's rugged 246-mile Grand Prix at Silverstone. That race gave Stewart a total of 45 world-championship points. His nearest rival, New Zealander Bruce McLaren, has only 17. With a full five Grand Prix races yet to run, the flippant, flamboyant Scot has virtually sewn up racing's most coveted prize...
...Your article "Capturing a Moon and Other Diversions" [Feb. 21] may appear entertaining or even flippant to some. But it will help persuade today's disenchanted student that science is not merely intellectually satisfying (and fun) but really relevant to problems that society faces...
More than that, Winship has not hesitated to model the Globeafter his own personality. In style, he is the archetypical American rogue, some-what of a Harry Truman in shirtsleeves. He wants to put out a paper with flair, with a slightly flippant attitude. He has what can only be described as a profound appreciation for reckless headlines: he still likes the one run in 1959 when Rockefeller stepped out of the 1960 Republican race--"Rocky Won't Roll." Looking at the old headline a few weeks ago when Rockefeller again withdrew, Winship smacked the desk appreciatively and declared...
...Prancing. Last week in Manhattan, Resnik returned to what is by all odds the finest of her 77 roles, stepping into the title part of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Carmen. Her Carmen is far from the flippant vixen so often projected by younger singers. "Carmen," she says, "is not a hip-swinging, tawdry, gutsy tart. I'll be damned if I'll prance around in the role." Instead, using dozens of shrewdly modulated gestures and inflections-a taunting yet soulful stare, a rippling laugh, an unexpectedly quiet and silken musical phrase-she builds...
...beware of in college history of sociology class. "Peruvian Indians are simple and friendly people," they will joke, or "The Ghanaians are so much smarter than the Liberians." Like all cultural descriptions the statements will be half true, but in voicing them the American abroad is not simply being flippant; he is searching for a frame of reference that will make sense of his surroundings, his neighbors and his daily frustrations...