Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the live oaks, draped with Spanish moss, a small band of nine-and ten-year-olds scramble among the tombstones with the quick casual grace of children playing games in their own familiar schoolyard. In the midst of death-to reverse the proverb-there is life. And what life. Life in yellow T shirts with maroon-letter messages like "Whereinthehell is Gainesville, Fla.?" Life, chewing sugarless grape gum with great juicy smacks. Life about as far from death as life...
...casual visitor, it looks like a typical boarding school for the overprivileged-300 acres in Stockbridge, Mass., a mansion, dorms, art studios, a gym, music rehearsal rooms and a barn, and 150 teen-agers so bright-faced and chipper that local residents say they can identify them by the "DeSisto glow...
...says the casual observer. 6-7-1, another mediocre season for the Crimson men's soccer team. Not so, says the careful scrutinizer. For there is not a team in the northeast, perhaps in the country, that could step on the field against the 1979 Harvard eleven assured of victory...
...view of man: he is an autonomous being, with no external controls. Because Catholics happen to be conspicuous exponents of natural moral law, humanists see the church as their barrier, and they are bitter against it." The threat to Catholics is not the snide and supercilious contempt of a casual bigot, but the idea, immensely powerful in the 20th century, that all religion is meaningless...
This is the latest in a growing genre of French movies (Going Places, Cousin, Cousine, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) in which superficially attractive people treat one another with casual, often thoughtless cruelty, but overlay this behavior with farcical charm...