Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style. "I don't think it's like anybody else's," he says. "I didn't think about it until other people started describing it. They described it in so many ways, I get kind of mixed up. I guess it's offbeat, casual. I get a line I figure will be funny or not, and I don't try to figure...
...washes his own nylon shirts in the bathroom. His wife used to go on tour with him, but he was nervous whenever he knew she was listening to him. ("When are you going home?" is his standard question to her whenever she comes to hear him play.) Despite his casual, smiling manner and his slouching walk, Brubeck is constantly tense. Unlike other musicians, jazz players of Brubeck's type cannot simply sit down and play from memory or from the sheet: since they never play a piece the same way twice, they are under the constant pressure of having...
Wandering through the chill autumn woods outside Stockholm, a casual American tourist might have stumbled across the 20 goose-pimpled Swedes and Finns and mistaken them for a bunch of overage Boy Scouts minus their marbles. Shivering in skimpy costumes-cotton shorts and shirts and gym shoes-they looked like summer hikers, some two months late, waiting for a tardy scoutmaster to take them home...
...also likes to manufacture verbs (e.g., to casualize-to employ casual labor), make up opposites (diseconomy, derestrict), and use unnecessary nouns as escapee ("We already have escaper"). He indulges recklessly in the not un-habit (not unjustifiably, not unduly unreasonable), shilly-shallies hopelessly in the apparent belief that "mistiness is the mother of safety." Thus, he will write, "In transmitting this matter to the Council the Minister feels that it may be of assistance to them to learn that, as at present advised, he is inclined to the view that, in existing circumstances, there is, prima facie, a case...
...this casual thriller, Dana Andrews, Gent Tierney and Judith Anderson are the other points of interest. Andrews proves he's a hard-bitten detective type by chewing gum, and Miss Tierney struggles with valor to live up to her role as the world's sweetest girl. Miss Anderson, being an almost hallowed institution of American drama, is beyond criticism, since everything she does is more or less perfect...