Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creation of Loker Commons my sophomore year seemed a time for the Major and me to celebrate. Finally, the campus would get that place for "casual eating and meeting," as Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles describes it. Knowles, with other College administrators, announced that the "sadly decayed machines and defunct heating systems in the basement of Memorial Hall would be transformed into a real student center...
...completely agree that there is no casual dating scene at Harvard, and that it's unnecessary. For three years I've looked around and seen stressed people, worried people, miserable people, and it doesn't have to be this way. But Harvard women, you are too smart and too strong to tack all your hopes for happiness onto others. Anything worthwhile is worth taking risks. NEIL N. FARNSWORTH...
...John and his three partners took their wares to a fashion trade show in Las Vegas; they sold $300,000 worth of clothing in just a week. Soon after, Samsung America agreed to distribute their $69 shirts and $800 bubble jackets to hip boutiques like Dr. Jay's and Casual Male on the East Coast. Last summer Macy's began carrying the line in its 10 East Coast stores. "That was like cutting our own album and headlining above Michael Jackson at Wembley Stadium," says John...
...confuse casual with unchallenging. Grove sets the tone, and it is always demanding. The people (mostly men) who work for him have inherited (and enforce) an engineer's creed that brings a bloodless "just fix it" intensity to everything from human relations to fabrication. "When I was at Intel, one of the most important values was discipline," says venture capitalist John Doerr, who worked for the firm for six years in the 1970s. "Andy Grove had no tolerance for people who were late or meetings that ran on without a purpose. It wasn't that he was a hard...
...rottenness of big cities touches everyone, high and low, respectable and raffish. Director Curtis Hanson, working off James Ellroy's bitterly brewed novel about corrupt 1950s cops, gets that wonderfully right in a smart, complex film that exuberantly mixes comic excess, melodramatic pressure, romantic rue and an almost casual murderousness...