Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who become hardened and casual lobster boilers usually do so by a firm belief that the lobster, despite its claw-waving, eye-rolling, scrabbling and thumping in the boiling vat, really doesn't feel a thing, since, after all, it is only a lobster. But last week the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals managed to suggest-without really saying so-that the lobster might screech with pain and horror at this treatment if only he were wired for sound...
...heresy is "the denial of corporate discipline and authority." Since the Catholics have a visible church with well-defined authority, U.S. Protestants, says Social Action, have again reacted by going to the other extreme: "Is the church to be conceived simply as an aggregate of individuals who meet for casual fellowship and worship once a week under a professional leader?...Individual persons are saved, but in their real human relations to others and not in isolation...
...realize the perils of touring unbidden in the Red domain; they think that what happened to those trapped by their jobs behind the Curtain-Correspondent William Oatis in Czechoslovakia (see PRESS), Businessman Robert Vogeler in Hungary and 60-odd Americans in Communist China-can't happen to casual tourists...
Lots of color and little shoe characterize feminine footwear designs for spring and summer. Both dressy heels and casual sports flats are styled to match the delectable colors of cotton and linen dresses and to take advantage of the added coolness provided by baring as much of a girl's foot as possible...
Almost the entire street level of the new building, Lever House, is given over to a parklike complex of garden and patio, open to the air and open to the casual stroller, while the building itself, a starkly modern, $6,000,000, 24-story, glass-encased monument to the soap industry, rises delicately overhead on stainless steel columns. The net effect is one of jet-propelled urgency held thankfully and restfully...