Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply, extremes in classical music are no longer in vogue. The casual classical music public is no longer fascinated with the blatant neuroticism and psychic distress found in Mahler, for example, but seeks relatively non-offensive music. The unsubtle may call it chewing gum for the mind, but both Gorecki's symphony and Deutsche Grammophon's recent effort contain very real musical gems...
...conversation, recorded sometime during the run-up to last week's presidential election in Colombia, moves on to a casual discussion of providing candidate Ernesto Samper Pizano with 3 billion pesos, or $3.7 million, in campaign funds. "We've already talked to Medina," Rodriguez says, apparently referring to Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina. "We'll send around some money on Wednesday, and then the rest about Monday of next week...
Come fall, Harvard Yard will no longer have a Garden. That's not referring to some Harvard landmark unknown to casual acquaintances of America's oldest university. It simply means that after two years of using a former apartment building on 29 Garden St. as first-year housing, the College is once again placing all the frosh in Yard and Union dorms...
...think my casual approach to academics is unusual here. Reading period is, after all, designed to encourage students to goof off splendidly throughout the semester. Most non-science concentrators spend fewer than 15 hours a week in class, and Harvard doesn't exactly have an attendance policy...
...casual form, the Crimson disposed of the Lions, 9-7, and then tamed the tigers...