Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pupil, Beatrice Mathews showed a comic talent superior even to Montoya's. Seated next to the professor, casual and happy, she presented a picture of slightly stupid innocence. As her torture increased so did the variety of her facial and bodily expressions of boredom, pain and outrage. Her delivery, like Montoya's, was nuanced and fluent. This is especially important in performing Ionesco, since most of the playwright's humor is based on his genius for distorting or exaggerating the phrases and rhymes of everyday conversation...
...Fair restaurant at the World's Fair (which the firm took over this year). To wring a profit from its three restaurants in Manhattan's gargantuan new Pan American Building, President and Chief Executive Joseph H. Baum, 44, relied on novel dazzle. Result: the Trattoria's casual dolce vita atmosphere to woo after-theater crowds, Charlie Brown's Ale & Chophouse with a 19th century British menu, and Zum Zum, a sausage and beer bar so successful that Baum plans to expand it into a chain within the chain...
Still, for a formal concert, the Band was annoyingly informal and casual. When they weren't themselves involved, the Band members' attentiveness to the music was rather poor. In the Copland work, many of them were obviously bored...
Royster, 51, is still as casual as ever about the Journal, and that is half the secret of the paper's success. On the editorial page, Royster makes high finance and big business friendly and folksy. He reduces economic intricacies to homilies anyone can understand. He takes the mystery out of Wall Street and makes it seem almost a neighborly kind of place. He is capable of acute, even eloquent analysis, but in his column, he compares Lyndon Johnson to Tom Sawyer's speechifying Uncle Silas, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry to Carrie Nation, the fellow who picked...
Even more disturbing than the School Committee's unwillingness to end racial imbalance has been its strident, irrational response to criticism. Led by Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, the majority of the Committee has articulated and given sanction to the originally casual prejudices of many white Bostonians. As a result, popular opinion has been inflamed against Negro rights demands, and Mrs. Hicks and her like-minded colleagues were reelected with wide margins in November...