Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coping with a troubled world. Some 3,000 reporters applied for accreditation to the meeting. Reluctantly, the council cut the list of accredited correspondents and photographers down to 600, representing 36 countries. Warned by the flood of applications for press passes, the council was prepared to give more than casual help to reporters...
...that Communism is a laughing matter to Fisher. In his quiet, casual way, he has rendered a devastating dictum on the subject: "There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian . . . The rest of the world are amiable non entities...
...drivers and nightwatchmen to bookies and brokendown prizefighters. To these customers, who are either starting their day or ending their night, Guy is just a small man with exceedingly bright eyes, bushy brows and a halo of white hair. They do not know his name, but he shares the casual nodding acquaintance of strangers who follow the same daily routine. Says Guy: "I wear my old work clothes, and they think I'm just an old coot on relief...
...week, over WNBQ in Chicago, tall, hollow-cheeked Ken Nordine recites poetry to a late evening audience. Perched on a stool, with a stepladder full of books beside him, the 34-year-old lowan reads earnestly in a subdued, husky voice, glancing from page to camera like a casual host reading to guests in his library. What distinguishes Nordine's shows from others like it is the flashing telephone by his side. He has adapted the disk jockey's request-format for poetry and made it work. When he finishes a poem, he picks up the telephone, listens...
...minute and masterly control of his material: script, camera, cutting, props, the handsome set constructed from his ideas, the stars he has Hitched to his vehicle. Actor Stewart happily downplays his boyish charm, comes through strongly as Hitchcock's principal agent in creating suspense out of casual incident. Actress Kelly, a Hitchcock worker in Dial M for Murder and now working in his next picture, plays the career girl with a subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear. As for Thelma Ritter...