Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laurents' "The weak shall inherit the earth" echoes A Woman's famous "The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong." And where Wilde was almost the last user of the classic aside, Laurents has adopted its chic, flip descendant, the crack or comment flung straight at the audience...
...imprecise questions with long, patriotic declarations clearly designed to demonstrate Susskind's own political soundness (pressure against the show from all sides, including general dicta from the State Department, had produced the kind of "hysteria" in which he got caught, Susskind explained later). Now and again Susskind was flip, as when he delivered the now-famous line, "You are baying at the moon," and Old Moon-Shooter Khrushchev gave him a naughty-boy dressing down, beginning by asking Susskind's age (39) and suggesting he had much to learn...
...hard-won shrewdness and a recourse to God, whose mysterious being is suggested with what might seem Audenesque skepticism if it were not so typically an Auden commitment. For Poet Auden, who frankly admits to his friends that he feels obliged to be amusing, sounds vaguely flip even when he discusses his God. And to prove God's existence, he ironically cites the unease of those who deny...
Hamlet came tooling onstage on a red motor scooter and sat eying three maniacal traffic signs: "To Be," "Not to Be," and "No Entry." He was tossing the skull of Yorick in the air, pondering how to flip his directional signals, when a stagehand reversed the "To Be" sign, revealing the words "To Egypt." Sure enough, Cleopatra appeared and started to shimmy...