Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectuals have often complained that America, wrenched by fear and suspicion, is at war with itself. Last week one intellectual tried to put things back into perspective. "From a casual glance at the contemporary scene," said Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold, "it might almost seem that we were again living in a house divided against itself and all but inundated by a lawless, anti-intellectual flood ... Is the picture too dark?" Griswold's answer...
...Hoofers; the guy who puts his sweet feet (a la limburger) in your face during much time and thinks he looks co-leej-ut." The typical commuter, admittedly, is not the Brook Brothers picture of the finely styled man; he is, however, cleanly and comfortably dressed. He enjoys the casual atmosphere of Dudley and the opportunity to share his toughest with undergraduates who also face the daily trip to and from the University. He is also similar to his Dudley friends in his moderate financial background. With few exceptions, it is this lack of funds that necessitates commuting...
...best, Hemingway has a sense of fate recalling Melville, an American heartiness recalling Mark Twain (who never used big dictionary words either). Hemingway can carve icebergs of prose; only a few words on paper convey much more beneath the surface. The taut, economical style contains more than meets the casual eye-the dignity of man and also his imperfection, the recognition that there is a right way and a wrong, the knowledge that the redeeming things of life are measured in the profound satisfactions that come from struggle. Said Dr. Anders Osterling, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, in Stockholm...
...casual observer, the roaring bedlam in Ohio Stadium a fortnight ago was just another football game. To the Hearst papers' Bill Corum, it was a sociological phenomenon. Columnist Corum easily saw through the trickery of the T, the brute power of the single wing, and discovered the real difference between Michigan and Ohio State. Buckeye superiority, he decided, rested on an institution a good deal older than football: marriage...
Despite its number of informal madrigal groups, the University has rarely boasted a permanent ensemble devoted to chamber-size choral music. But from casual origins several years ago, the Bach Society Chorus of the Music Club has gradually come to fill this...