Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high-flown nicknames like "Redeemer" (Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah) or "Lion of Malawi" (Nyasa-land's Kamuzu Banda), Nyerere is content to be known as Mwalimu-Swahili for teacher. Where other leaders use their high-powered, government-owned radios for propaganda messages, Nyerere uses his to broadcast casual eco nomic lessons. Recently he translated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into Swahili, and although after Caesar's assassination Cassius shouts "Uhuru, uhuru!", Tanganyika's Julius was careful to avoid equating himself with Rome...
...sets, by James Kelley, are casual and pleasant. The scene changes are painfully slow, and while the recorder music is pretty, there is rather too much of it. The usherettes, however, are exceptional. In other words, "She Wou'd If She Cou'd" is not the slickest show to hit Cambridge this year, but it has its moments and makes do pretty cheerfully...
Only about half the students date frequently, usually on campus. Last year someone proposed a committee called SMOG (Students for More Outright Gaiety). It died aborning. Swarthmore is big on folk music and oldtime movies, short on sick fads like LSD. Swarthmoreans prefer quiet brooding. "The most casual-looking kids are going through the most intense self-examination," says one casual-looking coed...
...Author William Shannon, able columnist for the liberal New York Post, this casual naturalization represents the Irish contribution to America: a concern for people, and a comparable disregard for the niceties of law. Where the Irish have failed in America, writes Shannon, it has been a failure not of nerve but of knowledge...
...College were able to demand writing ability as a pre-requisite for admission its casual approach to the subject might be justified But since even the annual expenditure of $150,000 a year on recruiting and admissions fails to produce 1200 men fully acquainted with the language, the College's complacency is inexcusable, General Education Ahf is only a half-hearted attack on the problem, and after that there is practically nothing...