Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reply, the Government's brief insisted on its need and right to keep FBI reports and informants secret: "A large area of vital Government intelligence depends on undercover agents, paid informers and casual informers who must be guaranteed anonymity . . . Disclosure of these confidential sources would not only imperil the employee loyalty and security program but would also endanger the effective functioning of investigative agencies in the espionage and sabotage fields." A balance must be struck "between protection of the individual and the demands of national security...
...would question that a professor or teaching fellow who needs a volume as a major reference in doing research or writing a book should have it for a longer period than the casual undergraduate. It would also be unfair to expect faculty members to be subject to the same regulations as students, renewing their books every two weeks. But there should be some time limit on a book which is in demand--no matter who needs it. Those faculty members to fail to comply should be subject to regular library fines...
...Churches. His criticisms are long overdue. A basic misunderstanding of Christianity, which is a philosophy of life demanding fortitude and effort, has led to syrupy organ music, sweet-voiced heroes and heroines and gravelly-voiced villains, which put most religious programs on the level of moralistic soap operas . . . the casual listener is revolted by . . . sepulchral voices drumming out reworded platitudes (most of which are slowly but surely wearing the shine off the Golden Rule...
...great many new problems have arisen in the last few years which might both vex and bewilder the casual and occasional popular song listener, In past years, in my own youth, it was sufficient to tap a foot or a finger and perhaps nod the head in time to the music when listening to ballads and such. Rhythm has always supplied a basic human need since that greatest of all songsters, Homer. Somewhere along the line, however, a queerly shaped instrument called "saxophone" came into being. By blowing one's breath into the smaller aperture of said instrument, thence through...
...preacher's lot a challengingly happy one. Ever since his unlined face and gentle voice became a fixture in Pittsburgh's Calvary Episcopal Church three years ago, religion has been moving out of the Sunday-morning shadows and into the steel mills and executive suites. The casual young members of the "Golf Club crowd" have found themselves talking religion at cocktail parties and even turning out for Bible-study meetings with "Dr. Sam" at the H-Y-P (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) Club. Steelworkers have attended prayer meetings right in the factory...