Word: casual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work, Author Morand allows readers to see him, a suave and casual Prospero, waving a wand which resembles a swagger stick. He wishes readers to understand how little effort it has caused him to be referred to as the polished Parisian diplomat, as the brilliant, the famed, the witty author of Ouvert la Nuit, Fermé la Nuit and many a shorter turn in the smartest smart-charts...
...through the green and sunny surface of country life to the wretchedness beneath. "The Mill on the Floss" and "Adam Bede", dealing with English life an with people whom the author knew, are analyzed clearly in Miss Haldane's book, and recommended as the best for the casual reader whose acquaince is limited to "Silas Marner...
Harvard might conceivably exploit the idea. The attractiveness of Memorial Hall could be enhanced by casual statues of local celebreties performing their usual functions; an obelisk glorifying the American old clothes man, a genre subject portraying a Senior preparing for Divisionals, tennis racquet in one hand and theatre tickets in the other; portrait of a Freshman donning last season's white flannels for this year's Jubilees; whole flocks of pathetic sublimities are available. But there would be conscientious objectors who would remonstrate that architecture was being over-emphasized, the certain things could will be omitted from eternal memory...
...will anyone who has in the most casual manner watched the struggle of American womanhood toward Divisional Examinations differ in point of view from the esteemed "Dean". The growth is a dignified and worthy tradition of this Ecole des Femmes merits the praise of less distinguished minds than his. It is in certain minor matters that one must differ with the author of "Not Always to the Swift...
Older people often complain of the one-sidedness of youth, deploring their lack of mature wisdom. Suppose there were a community in which all the young people were equipped with the mature and more casual point of view of men of 40 or 50 years old: How dull, how uninteresting that community would be! And among the first to raise a howl would be the older generation...