Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some ways it is healthier: the vice and crime that Romains described as characteristic of prewar France is now hidden or distant. The high-minded liberal intellectuals talk vaguely of Russia. The relaxations are banal. The moneymaking is easy, and tiresome. The love affairs and divorces are equally casual. The French suffer from the delusion that the Third Republic is running Europe. They patronize the English, deplore U.S. blindness in keeping out of the League of Nations, wonder if a standing army of 650,000 will be too big. Some familiar characters appear...
...place of the old concept of character determining destiny, Remains therefore substituted the miscellaneous, accidental, casual, purposeless or only half-purposeful existence. Experience consisted of fugitive impressions, words overheard, scenes glimpsed. Men of Good Will succeeds in communicating what Remains wanted it to communicate: the density and complexity of the modern world. It fails to record its simplicities...
...true of Mrs. Proctor, portrayed by City Lewis. She loses and regains her husband in a rather blase manner, as if she knows that everything is going to turn out all right eventually and does not feel in worth worrying about too much. Their big reuniting clinch is quite casual...
Robinson and his four staffers are as casual about battle dangers as a weekly's reporter covering the Sunday-school cake sale. Sample reportage: "Staff Sergeant Oscar Duebec pulled the pin from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...
...broken leg and was getting along in years (he is all of 31) someone had tried to put him behind a desk. A hell-raiser by temperament, he stirred up such a row that someone had another thought, gave him a squadron no one else wanted: a bunch of casual transfer and replacement pilots, well-trained but never welded into a team...