Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palomobo's poem gained in the presentation. Robert Beatey as Oedipus, and Elinor Fuchs as a sympathetically obscure Sphinx delivered their lines with a casual dignity which saved the play from any traces of pomposity. The language was pleasantly straight-forward and graceful, and the theme of Oedipus before the crossroads was interesting enough to carry the piece...
...home in Paris. Just like members of the family, they are snarled at by French cab drivers, roared at by French traffic cops, sneered at by hotel clerks, ignored by public servants, cursed by motorists and contemned by streetwalkers and beggars. With cocked brow and curling lip, the casual metropolitan Frenchman seems to regard most alien bewilderment as stupidity, any request as unreasonable, and all tips too small. For the visitor, the chief comfort to be derived from this situation is that Frenchmen seem to treat one another in much the same fashion...
...Walston is a first-rate Devil. Disdaining pitchfork theatrics, he is a provokingly cool customer even when buying souls, with a tart, casual manner and a fine, stylish unwholesomeness. As Joe Hardy. Stephen Douglass does all that is required of him - bats .524 for the Senators, sings very well for the show. Richard Adler-Jerry Ross songs and Bob Fosse's dances have hardly more than the outdoor virtues, but they have the right rousingness and tingle. And William and Jean Eckart's sets are amusing and crisp...
...Stations Everyone!" It is difficult to believe, in 1955, how casual were the beginnings of the Soviet nightmare. In late February 1917, hoodlums, soapbox orators and strikers swirled through the streets of Petrograd. By a kind of spontaneous combustion, troops joined the demonstrators and fired on the police. Anarchy and heady illusion were in the air: "Ahead everything was completely different, unknown, wonderful . . . Surely all this was an illusion, nonsense, all a dream. Wasn't it time to wake...
...sickening degree, whenever Joe McCarthy was alleged to have stepped on a pink toe. An example of the latter characteristic is Mr. Gwirtzman's report on Bill Buckley's lecture. Mr. Gwirtzman tried his best to discredit the seriousness of Mr. Buckley's intent by inflating a few casual remarks about who would or would not shake hands with whom to the status of a main character in the plot. Did Mr. Gwirtzman attempt to convey any of Mr. Buckley's more serious points to his CRIMSON audience? Did Mr. Gwirtzman himself risk an exchange of ideas with Mr. Buckley...