Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually the case with great works of art, mere descriptions are futile. These dance suites must be heard many times, studied, and lived with before they yield all their secrets. Still, they can be rewarding to the casual listener. Given a sensitive performance, the humor, the dignity, and the enormous energy of the Clavierubung are immediately evident...
...Administration draws a line, however, on this custom of casual clothing. Halters and barefeet are not permitted in classes, conferences, or the dining room, and shorts must not be more than three inches above the knee...
...delinquent group. This obviously does not mean that each boy who possesses one or several of these traits must become delinquent, but as the Gluecks put "it becomes highly probable that we are dealing with some sort of causal connection between the factors and the behavior, rather than with casual or accidental coincidence between them...
...comedy, To Be Continued, William Marchant has treated the moral structure of Western society in about as casual a manner as anybody in a pretty casual century. Without batting an eyelash he sets the scene in the Greenwich Village pied-a-terre of a New York jeweler, weaves the action from the point of view of that gentleman's mistress, and as I understand it, blandly assumes throughout that there is no problem of social morality in the relationship...
...Little Peeved." Chain-smoking cigarettes through a holder, Bridges testified that Grunewald's lawyer, an old friend, had asked him to look into the Klein case. He did so and concluded that Klein was unjustly treated, but he insisted that his interest was purely casual-the sort of thing he would do for any taxpayer. The committee counsel, Adrian W. DeWind, then began reading from one of Washington's most interesting documents, a stenographic log of all Oliphant's telephone conversations and daily appointments, kept by Oliphant's secretary...