Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slonina started as a casual custodian at Eliot in 1976. While he's worked other jobs around Harvard, he said he always ended up coming back to Eliot House...
...found that I was on a little bit of a faster rhythm, and I was impatient when things went slowly or inefficiently," Nordell says, although he admits the slower pace of thought and conversation could be appealing. "It was wonderful to gradually get back into casual talking and thinking...
...engaging bass groove, but few moments on this CD--except the wonderful cascade of jazz that closes out the song Lovers at First Sight--really hook us. The talented Richie can do more--remember Easy and Three Times a Lady? Those songs were slow too, but they had a casual charm Richie's new material could use more...
...which Sir Edmund Hillary, now retired in New Zealand, added, "I have a feeling that people have been getting just a little bit too casual with Mount Everest. This incident will bring them to regard it rather more seriously...
John Grisham's 1991 thriller, The Firm, offered an inside-the-ant-colony view of lawyers being loathsome, a redundant concept that made him rich and had readers roaring for more. His subsequent page turners wandered from this antijuridical obsession to a more casual sort of barrister bashing that occasionally had other things on its mind. In The Runaway Jury (Doubleday; 401 pages; $26.95), obsession is back...