Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phonograph Inventor Thomas Alva Edison has a lot to answer for-as the most casual record-shop browser can testify. Sir Arthur Sullivan once declared: "I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever." Edison's invention has so profoundly altered the performance and consumption of music that it was possible for the most popular singer of the day-Elvis Presley-to build a recording-studio career while scarcely ever opening his mouth in public. To commemorate Edison's recent election to the Hall of Fame, the Edison...
...progress, Kirchliche Dogmatik, may well ride out the centuries as a theological landmark, whose post-World War I sermons on Paul's letters to the Romans lit a cannon cracker under Europe's bourgeoisie, whose resounding no to Hitler stiffened intellectual resistance to Naziism, and whose casual shoulder shrug to Communism in recent years has stiffened Western resistance to Barth...
President Charles de Gaulle was amiable and casual as he moved among his guests gathered on the lovely lawns of the Elysee Palace for his annual garden reception. But his words were calculated and blunt...
...sight of a spear fisherman on the prowl in mask, wet suit, fins and Aqua-Lung is enough to convince most casual observers that the underwater sportsman is equipped to take unfair advantage of his peaceful prey. But U.S. Navy Mineman Third Class Scotty Slaughter, 24, is a skindiver with a difference. He hunts for danger: any size, shape or variety of shark. It seems unfair to Scotty that spearmen anxious to skewer a meal should be bothered by a fish with the nasty habit of fighting back. So the blond, blue-eyed waterbug from Clearwater, Fla., has embarked...
...president of Restaurant Associates, quiet, casual Jerome Brody, 38, has cornered a big helping of Manhattan's high-priced eating trade with a chain of pretentious feeding places (the Four Seasons, Forum of the Twelve Caesars, the Tower Suite). Now Brody is bent on another exotic venture: operation of a first-class French resort in, of all places, France. Pending approval by French authorities, Restaurant Associates plans to buy for $3,000,000 the Hotels Golf and Chicago in Divonne, France, near Geneva. Brody should have little trouble financing the deal: the Forum of the Twelve Caesars alone...