Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later. Each class is taught by a team of four women: an experienced kindergarten teacher, an assistant, a teacher's aide whose job is to keep individual records on each child's progress, and an unpaid volunteer who helps at lunchtime and naptime and adds to the casual, familylike surroundings. "We break the class into groups, always trying to bring the communication down to a conversation between a grownup and a child," says Project Director Catherine Brunner...
...incredible improvising runs are effortless. She can take off from a melody, go over it, around it, through it, under it, moving at twice the speed of nine-to-five Man, tossing in casual doodies in the abstract expressionism of sound. When other singers' jugulars would be bulging, Ella isn't even panting. She seems to breathe through her ears. Her range goes from lower owl to upper sparrow. Her voice sounds all of 20 years old. Her manner, for all her speed, is soothing. Just when you think she might be turning into Bonnie Baker, however...
...current controversy over the Doty Report is not a transient item of interest; it is a crucial debate which may permanently alter the course of Harvard education. It is not a casual modification of curriculum which is at stake, but, rather, a critical (though perhaps unintentional) deviation from the traditional goal of Harvard education--the liberally educated...
Wasps in Amber. With casual vividness, the old dandy sketches Hoby the Bootmaker, an insolent St. James Street shopkeeper who sneered at every customer up to and including the Iron Duke himself; Colonel Kelly of the First Foot Guards, a grand dandy so proud of his precious, gleaming boots that he burned to death trying to save them from a fire; and muscular Dan Mackinnon, who "used to amuse his friends by creeping over the furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel...
...most scandalous case, however, involves an instructor in Greek philosophy. He is accused of copying all his published works, word for word, from casual comments made by a senior professor at cocktail parties...