Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes this play a chestnut is not so much its romance, its medieval setting, its aria-like speeches--as its flagrant predictability. The title tells you that the lady won't get burned, just as the juvenile's first glance at the ingenue tells you that they'll end up eloping. Despite the twist with which the story starts out--the hero arrives and announces he wants to be hanged--the gist of the play is not only old, but old-fashioned. Life, it says, is lousy and there are two ways out: Death and falling in love...
Farthest out of all was Foreign Minister Nesti Nase of Peking-lining Albania, who proposed a formal resolution to condemn not only Israel but also the U.S. and Britain. Russia, he indicated, should really be included as well. "The American-Soviet alliance is so flagrant," announced Nase, "that if there were women aboard the warships of these two powers, there would be dancing every night on the decks." Then he added: "You know very well, you American imperialists, that the so-called aid of the Soviet leaders is a vast fraud...
There was something else in the Russian diatribes that made Israel even angrier. "The U.S.S.R. has formulated an obscene comparison between the Israel defense forces and the Hitlerite hordes which overran Europe in the Second World War," Eban said. "There is a flagrant breach of international morality and human decency in this comparison. Our nation never compromised with Hitler Germany. It never signed a pact with it, as did the U.S.S.R. in 1939. To associate the name of Israel with the accursed tyrant who engulfed the Jewish people in a tidal wave of slaughter is to violate every canon...
...hate this age," says Sculptor Reuben Nakian. "It's very cold here. So you have to train yourself to ignore it." For years, Nakian has been training exuberantly at his Stamford, Conn., studio by designing huge, flagrant evocations of Greek nymphs and goddesses (see color opposite). Modern U.S. sculpture in classical themes seems a bit like vodka martinis in Grecian urns. Yet Nakian's polylithic Ledas, Hecubas and Olympias are lusted after by some of the most adventurous contemporary curators and collectors in the country...
Perhaps the most flagrant case is the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club. Considering the near-universal interest and participation in musical activity at Harvard, there is really no need for an organization with as catholic pretensions as a title like that would indicate. At this point, the Music Club is little more than the administrative arm of the Bach Society Orchestra. In the face of the existence of another orchestra and a spontaneously active musical community, the Music Club this year sought to justify its existence by assuming a character of unbearable insularity and a more-musical-than-thou arrogance that...