Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...
...relatively few, noisy disciples of McCarthyism created a highly inaccurate picture of the place of patriotism in the U.S. and gave it a bad name. The truth is that most Americans are casual patriots most of the time. Whatever national loyalty a man feels is indirect, the product of satisfaction with his job, family, friends, union, church, country. If asked what other country he might prefer, he draws a blank. Rarely have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship or denigrate their country while abroad. Saul Alinsky, the professional agitator, says with some surprised self-analysis...
...More Bull. Stopping for a few casual words with incoming workers as he left the mill, Held next drove to the Lock Haven airport, where he shot at Switchboard Operator Gerry Ramm four times, wounding her twice. Thinking it was a prank, the airport manager hustled Held outside without a protest. Then Held's obsession sent him to the Sugar Valley School, where three of his own children and some 500 others had been locked inside after police had notified the principal of Held's rampage. After circling the school, Held drove home and invaded the house...
...took down the names of some students they recognized. In considering disciplinary action later, those students were distinguished from protestors who handed in their bursar's cards but were not actually identified at the scene. That division--which depended on the zeal of individual House officers--bore only a casual relation to students' participation...
...extraordinarily arbitrary nature of this decision is obvious. Students were singled out with only the most casual regard to the degree of their involvement in the sit-in. While strongly defending what they called Leavitt's freedom of movement, the University has ignored a basic axiom of civil liberties: that the law be applied equally...