Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jealous of the attention their neighbor to the north pays to Europe and Asia, South American leaders are particularly concerned in an election year. Latin ambassadors in Washington have been bombarded with urgent inquiries from home about the presidential candidates' views on hemispheric issues, and even the most casual speech from the stump is scrutinized for hints of policy changes...
Buckley's verbal agility never flagged all through the question-andanswer period that followed his talk. Asked what he thought would happen to Mayor Lindsay's political career if he were appointed to the Senate, Buckley disposed of his former opponent with a casual "I don't know. Where will he give fewer speeches?" And what about ex-Mayor Robert F. Wagner's appointment as Ambassador to Spain? Nothing wrong with that, said Buckley of his former Democratic nemesis' new assignment. "After all, he doesn't have to run Madrid...
...clerks are walking legal briefs, drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife (Eleanor Fazan) attests Maitland's bankrupt marriage. He resorts to his sage and patient mistress (Jill Bennett), not to exchange the gift of self but to flee from self. His casual office couchmates simply represent a frantic release of tension in the friction of flesh. Maitland propositions girls with brusque self-regard: "Do you like it, do you want it? Those are the only questions I have ever thought worthwhile going into...
...family problems. Russia's rulers have never quite been able to decide what role the family should play in their master plan for the ideal state. Marx defined the family as "antiquated" and predicted that it would vanish along with capitalism; the Bolshevik coup in 1917 thus brought casual mating and divorce, and a brief fling at free love. The man who stopped it was that formidable patriarch Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed that the family was "the basic cell of society" and put himself on the side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even Stalin was not above endorsing...
...voice, the humor and the casual grace evoked memories of another man and a happier time. But Bobby was always his own person. Jack could get somewhere without really trying. Bobby ("the Runt") could not, or thought he could not, and thus tried all the harder. Perhaps this is what inspired in other men such unyielding loyalty and such unquenchable hatreds, neither of which Jack ever evoked to such intense degree. Because of the family tradition, it was inevitable that some day, if not in 1968, then 1972, Bobby would run for President. As a Senator, John Kennedy explained...