Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perry Como and Andy Williams proved the rule, though their effortlessness had to be rehearsed. To produce a 60-minute program, Como tapes for as much as two days, Williams for up to eleven hours. Now both of them are being outrelaxed by a competitor so genuinely casual that he can't be bothered with a real rehearsal or even a retake. As a result, The Dean Martin Show is hoisting itself ever higher in the ratings and is the closest thing on the air to the free and easy spontaneity of old-fashioned live television...
...Melville's criterion, suggests Dr. Lois DeBakey in the New England Journal of Medicine, medicine must be full of "smatterers in science." Hospital records, casual conversations and technical reports "are loaded with shoptalk, incomprehensible to nonphysicians and often confusing even to physicians from other regions." A member of a notable family of surgeons-one brother is Houston Surgeon Michael DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28), another brother, Ernest, is also a surgeon-Dr. Lois, who has a Ph.D. in English and is an associate professor in scientific communication at Tulane University, is a surgeon of language. She advises medical writers...
Bruner called for an end to the "compartmentalizing" of education as a special department of a university. "Education is not a casual thing," he said, and emphasized that the intellectual community has to organize in order to "encode knowledge and skill in a transmittable form. Education is the tool kit of the next generations. It cannot be separated from culture...
Affairs at State does not make encouraging reading for anyone interested in the U.S. Foreign Service, especially for anyone interested in a lifetime career in the Service. But the casual reader should soon some to an understanding of precisely why American diplomacy today so often tends towards the abysmal...
...first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping him in 1962 for suave, casual Banker-about-Town Georges Pompidou. "To be, to have been," said Debré in farewell, "the first collaborator of General de Gaulle is a title without equal...