Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even if community schools have not been tagged and packaged acording to conventional educational standards, the most casual classroom visitor cannot resist an overpowering feeling that the schools are immensely successful. The feeling is probably caused by features which are as much political as curricular. Community school children are alert and resourceful. They like to come to school (white public schools must fight staggering absentee problems). Above all, they seem happy. Why? Because the schools are filled with people who know them intimately and like them. In community schools, the community is part of the school and the school...
...casual fancy, S. J. Perelman once concocted an actor of surpassing ego. "I see a fresh new concept of drama knocking at the door," he said. "A theatre without plays . . . devoid of scenery and untrammeled by actors...
...from New York. . . .Actually the conservative from Minnesota is hating the communist from New York for taking her hair curlers. Usually girls band together in groups of four or five that eat together and try to ignore everyone else, but things are fluid enough so that everyone has some casual friendships (casual in the sense of chance). Few are aware of it, but it is these casual friendships that are one of the millstones around the Cliffie's neck. Watch out for casual friends! Your casual friend is the girl who tells you she is about to start piano lessons...
...suppose in the old days (in the time of The Meaning of Meaning) one was concerned to modernize the theory of knowledge, and we (Ogden and I) outraged everybody by saying that really what you were talking about was only connected with what you said by a complex casual relation. That was scandalous in 1919. It became commonplace as time went...
Business at Unity is done in a deliberately casual atmosphere designed to put people at ease. Rock music plays softly from loudspeakers. Bank employees banter with people who just drop in to have a neighborly chat. "We're more than a bank," says Sneed. "If we have to say no to a customer, we say, 'No. Because...