Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent exchange of phone calls substantiates the fact that connection between these two men has been more than just a casual friendship...
...above all he is active in Loudun." So said Rabelais four centuries ago; at least, that's what the people of Loudun say he said. Some people suspect that Loudun, a town of 5,313 in western France, is still a little proud of its reputation for casual wickedness. "I think," said a bookseller of Loudun last week, "it is because of our fine white wines. One can drink liters, like water, but suddenly it hits like a coup de fusil and even the old feel young...
...postwar Vienna, The Third Man is crammed with cinematic plums that would do the early Hitchcock proud-ingenious twists and turns of plot, subtle detail, full-bodied bit characters, atmospheric backgrounds that become an intrinsic part of the story, a deft commingling of the sinister with the ludicrous, the casual with the bizarre. But the central characters are not mere pawns in a melodrama; they are motivated people who speak grown-up dialogue and feel contagious emotions. The film's most original touch: a unique musical sound track using only a hauntingly twanging zither* which speaks more tellingly than...
...usually the case on Invitation, the discussion was friendly, adult and casual. "We try to make it sound like conversation, not a debate," says Producer Crothers, "as though the listener had sneaked up on the men at a cocktail party and overheard them." Nowadays the panel speakers shift every week, but back in 1940, when Invitation started as an offshoot of the "Great Books" program of Stringfellow Barr, former president of Maryland's St. John's College, there was a permanent panel. It was abandoned, says Crothers, because after a few months "everyone had explored everyone else...
...converged on Manhattan for the 116th convention of the "Triple-A S" (American Association for the Advancement of Science). They were predominantly male, on the average surprisingly young (thirtyish), and anything but grave. They streamed from meeting to meeting, interrupted the speakers, held sub-conclaves in corners. Even a casual glance at the Triple-A S gave proof that U.S. science is on its toes, confident and properly concerned with running down facts...