Word: stooping
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...funny) and a teetotalling bar-smasher gets roaring drunk, but this particular show extends its faithfulness to formula a bit too far. Individual lines like "you boys couldn't flatten out a wrinkled postage stamp" ring a little hollow. I wondered during the first act whether the show would stoop to the Beach Party level of repartee with one character emphatically commenting "You can say that again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same. Of course part of the fun is scavenging--a line from...
...have discussed with former President Johnson many times the overwhelming problems facing America. I would never stoop to using such a platform for partisan criticism-especially of a man whom I admire, respect and love as I do former President Johnson. He most certainly did not interpret my prayer in the way TIME did because when I turned around on the platform and shook his hand, he said: "That was a wonderful prayer. God bless you." When he and his family left the platform, both Lynda and Luci came over and hugged and kissed...
...distribution at Harvard--but the calendar folded and HarBus -- business manager: Lewis--picked up the entertainment news. "An interesting side-light on all this," Lewis said, " is that HSA claimed then that it circulated at the Business School, when of course it didn't at all. They'll stoop to anything to make money...
...NEWMAN has already defined liberal education, Barzun means to expose its twentieth century impersonators. Both men would agree that the university cannot stoop to teach values, no matter how politically troubled the times or how loud the student demands. "Values (so-called) cannot be taught; they are breathed in or imitated. And here is the pity of the sophistication that no longer allows the undergraduate to admire some of his elders and fellows: He deprives himself of models and is left with a task beyond the powers of most men, that of fashioning a self unaided...
NIXON'S campaign position was murky. Trooping through North Carolina in September, he delighted local crowds by saying that his administration would never stoop to cutting off the Federal aid. But when the national press picked up the story, a flood of protest rolled down from the North. Back in New York three days later, Nixon recanted, saying that he didn't mean to "imply that we would not use all the available tools to guarantee equal education...