Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...risk of being thought casual ... I suggest Pogo...
...happier town last week was Rock Springs (pop. 11,500), Wyo. No casual visitor would ever catalogue it as an art center. Union Pacific streamliners rumble through its heart, the streets are lined with 26 busy bars, and the town's big preoccupations are railroads and coal. But Rock Springs owns one of the liveliest collections of contemporary American art in the Rockies-some 275 paintings, lithographs and etchings by such artists as Frederic Taubes, Aaron Bohrod and Grandma Moses. And Rock Springs is busy collecting more...
...Princeton eating club, to a casual visitor, seems to offer nothing except an endless round of parties, dances, and dinners. But behind this facade of elegance--waiters, fine food, comfortable chairs, linen table cloths--lies a quarrel that nearly split the university in two three years ago, and the resulting mess is still the hottest topic on the campus...
...fact that the honor system really "works" can be seen by even the casual visitor. Books are left in the halls and under the campus trees in full confidence that they will be there when the owner returns. The word "pledged" on an examination paper is the student's bond that he has neither given nor received aid; as such it is accepted without question. The professor's empty chair and the complete absence of proctors during examinations pay tribute to a tradition of honor which is respected and upheld...
...arty fellow travelers from the Bloomsbury set, and their spirits are as dank as their cellar studio apartments. Black sheep sons of wealthy parents, ersatz painters and poets, they are all fighters with the mouth who like to play at social revolution between bouts of faddish chitchat and casual fornication...