Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kidnapped (Walt Disney; Buena Vista). Robert Louis Stevenson's casual classic was written, he confessed, with "no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid." Walt Disney's movie version may persuade the young gentlemen that Latin homework is a comparative pleasure...
What Lukens wanted was a topnotch summer science camp for his boy. Finding none good enough, he thought of starting his own. The clincher: a casual hotel conversation that Lukens overheard about Gushing Island in Maine's Casco Bay. Long a fashionable summer colony, the 156-acre island was the site of Fort Levett, an obsolete Army base for which the Government was vainly asking...
...sight, among the towering pines up on KT-22 Mountain, lay a short stretch of snow that was to prove the burial ground of the U.S.'s fondest hopes for its high-rated women skiers. Even to the casual eye, the setting was sinister enough: the steepest, straightest schuss on the course dived toward a hard-packed bump, which tossed the skier into the air just as she hit a 90° left turn dubbed "Airplane Turn...
...semi-regular" guests. This week the visitors were Jack Benny and Diahann Carroll, but it was crew-cut Garry Moore, as usual, who clinched the show. Whether he was acting "a nice Arthur Godfrey," a wide-awake Perry Como, or the aging kid next door, Moore's casual, easy humor made everything come off-from a far-out science-fiction skit to a split-second...
...interested in all these matters as well as in good wine, roses and birds (he owns 100 parakeets). Thin, balding and scholarly looking, he is as inconspicuous as one of his own characters. But his work closely resembles that of another British expert in horror, Saki, particularly in casual bloodthirstiness and ghoulish wit, and he very nearly equals Saki in fiendish invention. His one complaint: "People miss the humor in my stories because they're so intent on being made to squirm...