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Although one can ignore the flippant tone of Gregory Craig's and Mary Belle Feltenstein's response (CRIMSON, Feb. 15th) to the disclosure of CIA funding of the NSA for nearly 15 years, there was something rather vital missing in their reaction. I should like to put a query to them...
...centipede. With Fred Astaire, Ginger begins a cycle that lasts 16 years-from Flying Down to Rio to The Barkleys of Broadway. The routine never varies: Astaire's pumps beating an impassioned rat-a-tattoo on the shiny floor, Rogers' footwork echoing a moment later in a flippant filigree. It is the era when dancing still means moving together...
...final confirmation was needed that the old curmudgeon is indeed mellowing, he switched TV roles last week. Instead of appearing as the barbed interviewer, he played the part of the jolly, flippant gryphon in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Since this modern, de-animalized version had Freudian overtones, the BBC declared it unsuitable for children under twelve. But Muggeridge won warm reviews anyway. "Mr. Muggeridge's whole life," wrote Geoffrey Moorhouse in the Guardian, "has been leading up to the evening when he would dance a dab-toed quadrille, before a carefully prepared audience, against...
...statement was not reached without a paroxysm of agonizing and soul-searching. Much as they deplored Pike's flippant way with church teaching, few bishops consider him serious or deep enough a theologian to be considered a heretic. But they also feel strongly, as one leading prelate put it, that "Jim has gone off on his own," without regard to the thoughts and judgments of his peers -and a bishop is above all a symbol of unity within the church. At the same time, the Episcopal hierarchy shuddered at the thought of a heresy trial's impact...
...opera into the thoroughbred class, made a major star of John Wayne, and clinched an Academy Award for the late Thomas Mitchell, who gave a richly liquored-up performance as a thirsty, unshaven quack. In this ill-starred remake, Bing Crosby plays Mitchell's doctor role with more flippant humor, fewer prickly insights. Bing is good, but otherwise the movie suggests once more that Hollywood's twice-told tales seldom honor the past as much as they plunder...