Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clermont Club, Crockford's and the Curzon House Club are the kings of the $3 billion-a-year fever, reigning over tables at which men and women do not gamble because they are on holiday, as they might at Deauville or Baden, but as part of their casual daily entertainment. It is not exceptional to see players win or lose $50,000 or so of an evening. Since gambling was legalized in 1960, it has been taken up by just about everyone. Little old ladies now venture their shillings in flourishing bingo halls like the Burnt Oak off Edgware...
Holbrook, who has crisscrossed the U.S. and Europe in this one-man show, brings it to Broadway with much fresh material culled from Twain's writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...
...Ferrari 330 P3 was quite a car: developed specifically to compete with Ford, it harbors beneath its streamlined, electric-red shell a massive 12-cylinder fuel-injection engine that generated 420 h.p., powered the 3-ft.-high machine to a record average of 106.1 m.p.h. in a casual qualifying...
Harvard will build a regional film center in cooperation with M.I.T., Brandeis, and Boston University, to provide students and faculty with art films for serious research and casual viewing, if money can be raised to finance the library...
Ideally, Gardner said, the films in the library would be as available to the casual browser as the stacks of Widener. He added that this policy might hinder the collection of films since some distributors are hesitant to sell films to organizations which make the films available to the public at no cost...