Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert cryptanalyst and the Sunday-puzzle expert alike rely on the fact that letters have their own personalities. As David Kahn writes: "To the casual observer, they may look as alike as troops lined up for inspection, but just as the sergeant knows his men as 'the gold-brick,' 'the kid,' 'the reliable soldier,' so the cryptanalyst knows the letters of the alphabet...
BETWEEN wishes, the cook tags behind the devil as he performs his "casual mischief"--popping buttons from shirts returning from the cleaners, phoning up people in the bath, ripping the last page from Agatha Christies...
Brodie says, with all the casual arrogance of an army sergeant addressing fresh recruits. It is hothouse precocity and not learning or wisdom that she instills. Instead of history, she maunders on about her World War I lover who died in Flanders Field the day before the Armistice. Instead of art, she lapses into erotic reveries about the sensual gratifications of Italian holidays...
...British Masterpieces," which will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, pays little more than lip service to the aristocratic portrait and the studied landscape, the established prides and prejudices of English art. Instead, the era's sense and sentiment is often best il lustrated by the casual sketch, the minor masterwork by the relative unknown...
...women leaning back in large loungechairs are enclosed from the chest down by a plastic balloon. To the casual observer, they look like a cross between customers at a beauty parlor and weight watchers at a reducing salon...