Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scout, horrified to find the glory that was Greece reduced to such sordid circumstances, decides to do a good deed. With the secret financial assistance of the local vice czar, who fears the prostitute's casual price policy will ruin his market, the hero initiates a program of cultural aid to the heroine's underdeveloped area: the mind. Obligingly, the heroine at first abandons the pleasures of the body, discovers the pleasures of the intellect. But in the denouement she also discovers that when nature is denied, spirit suffers too. The film ends with a blare of strumpets...
Some of the paragraphs to complete really leave the casual reader wondering. A particularly tantalizing one says, "The rash of literature chronicling Harvard-Radcliffe love affairs...covers a range from the near-epic to the super-mundane. The stories have in common with each other a variety of unhappy endings...
...nation Disarmament Committee was expanded by five to include Indonesia, Mexico, Ghana. India and the U.A.R. Outside the Assembly chamber, Khrushchev tirelessly wooed such neutralists as Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Ghana's President Nkrumah at a dizzying succession of cocktail parties, dinners and calculatedly casual encounters...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her sligtly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb; the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
...native New Yorker, the commissioner might have known that such casual talk would not pass unchallenged. The New York Board of Rabbis issued an angry statement. Mayor Wagner called the commissioner on the carpet, demanded an apology within 48 hours and announced angrily: "He's the police commissioner and I'm the mayor, and everybody in the city had better understand that...