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...worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than to expect an easy strike from a striped bass-a silver-green fighter with a flippant challenge that turns men into lifelong, zealous pursuers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stalker | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...characterization of the other convict is a stereotype--the cheery, flippant, singing Negro who turns out, not unnaturally, to bear a heavy burden of bitterness. Sidney Poitier plays the role as convincingly as possible, though he, too, is at his worst when philosophical...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: The Defiant Ones | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...Producer David (Armstrong Circle Theater) Susskind rasped that they are "too flippant, too cursory, too gossipy, not constructive enough, and not important enough to create a body of critical judgment on one of the most important mediums ever invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pass the Peanuts | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...once, the Detroit River came alive. Flippant rooster tails of spray arced high as six hopped-up speedboats zippered the straightaway and skittered hell-bent for trouble toward the first turn of the Gold Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes. The last heat boiled into a catfight between two river belles-Miss Thrijtway, a neat cream, orange and white number from Seattle, and Miss Pepsi, a Detroit brawler all tricked out in red, white and blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tarnished Gold Cup | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Legion, once attacked Spain's hard-bitten Cardinal Segura for his crackdown on Protestants. The paper's editorial was headed: THE CARDINAL CALLED THE COPS 400 YEARS TOO LATE. The only comment Editor Bosler got from Archbishop Paul C. Schulte: "I thought your headline was a little flippant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Catholic Press | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

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