Word: casual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devotee of art in the University Community, activity in the Fogg Museum is no stranger. Behind the quiet of its galleries, he sees the active aspects which the casual visitor is likely to miss, the careful arrangement of a special exhibit or intense study for a Fine Arts 13 exam, the photographing of an ancient sculpted head or the creation of a new piece of sculpture. Available to all, however, is the distinctive atmosphere of Fogg's pleasant corridors and light-bathed courtyard...
...manner, with a capacity of humor so deep that you found yourself laughing at every thing she found amusing, even yourself. Leo made you uncomfortable, you always felt he thought you were ridiculous...Everybody was attracted to Gertrude--men, women and children, our German maids, the Negro laundresses, even casual acquaintances she talked to on long walks we used to take in the country...
...only other portion of the library accessible to the casual visitor is a series of rooms displaying samples from Houghton's unmatched theater collection. "Playbills, posters, prints, photographs, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, letters, documents, clippings"--everything pertaining to the theater in any form fills the theater section of the Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast...
...nerve center of the library, at least as far as the casual observer is concerned, is the reading room on the first floor. It is locked and can only be entered if the curator at the front pushes a button which electronically releases the latch. Anyone presumably--student, faculty member, or accredited and interested scholar-may use the library material, regardless of its rarity...
...damage the rating of such standbys as Wyatt Earp, Rawhide, Have Gun-Will Travel, and Gunsmoke. Gabin, of course, is the acknowledged king of French tommy-gun flicks. With his slightly paunchy and degenerate mien he is the very image of the slightly world-weary tuff guy, and the casual manner in which he slaps around both the guilty and the innocent is beyond compare...