Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember is not exciting, but it has a casual authenticity and charm. Its reconstruction of World War I society is very near the life. So are the performances of young Croft and Miss Colbert. This first-rate melding of an understanding script (Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott) with superior photography (George Barnes) and music (Alfred Newman) is a peacock feather in Director Henry King...
...year was W. H. Auden's The Double Man ($2), a brilliant attempt to outwit the age's prevailing schizophrenia, and to focus at least a statement of the problem of evil and of the possibility of hope. All this it managed in verses as clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator of Shakespeare. Richard Aldington...
...routine announcement of policy would require no further comment. But the casual reader of the Crimson will dismiss this as the pat communique of "another political organization"--and of this failure to reach the mind of the undergraduate for whom it seeks to speak the Liberal Union is acutely aware. The Liberal union takes this opportunity publicly to thrash out the causes of an apathy which negates the basis of political organization...
Williams became his own publisher, editor, record reviewer, news hawk, copy boy, and business manager, except for casual assistance here and there. Jazz Information was not making money; indeed, Williams didn't expect that it would, believing that his paper could never remain true to the standards he set for it and be commercially successful as well. But his constitution gave way before his bank account...
Among the 88 was Walter Sorensen. When a reporter asked Anna how she felt, she said a casual mouthful about one American boy who risked a lot for 62 bucks a month...