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...that the exam was presented to the students in such a way as to arouse suspicion as to the motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. "The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers." the Crimson pointed out. "For example, Portland, Oregon was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin Roosevelt was listed among the Presidents who have been assassinated...
...Times' questionnaire was apparently presented to the students in such a way as to arouse suspicion as to the motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers (e.g., Portland, Oregon, was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was listed among the presidents who have been assassinated...
Your article on Roy Harris' Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8) reflects little credit on your magazine or on the person who wrote the article, obviously without hearing the symphony or reading the program notes. . . . Whether you have the right to be so flippant and even coarse in dealing with the work of one of the most sincere and high-minded artists of our century is more than just doubtful...
Vogue's words could not help seeming pale, irrelevant, almost flippant beside the unspeakable pictures received from Greece last week (see cuts). Yet Vogue's words (in a moving and far-from-flippant article in the current issue) and those of Greek Minister of Information Andre Michalopoulos could supplement the picture in the process of educating the outside world in Axis occupation methods...
Condemned to years of living death in Mzensk, the heroine commits three murders to relieve her boredom. The first Soviet opera, Lady Macbeth became a Red fad, was given more than 200 performances in Leningrad and Moscow. In the U.S., where it arrived in 1935, the opera was called flippant, noisy, vulgar and a hodgepodge of musical styles. Nevertheless, Lady Macbeth of Mzensk fascinated many musicians by its vitality, shrewd musical characterization, brilliant orchestration...