Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interview with the CRIMSON, Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr. '40, newly appointed Chief of Psychiatry (whose article on collegiate mores had touched off the 1963 "Harvard sex scandal" in the press), said that "we at the Health Services take a fairly casual attitude toward pot. We know that some Harvard students are using marijuana. We know they get it from townies. But it isn't harmful, and there's no evidence to show it's even as addictive as cigarettes." While he warned of the possibility that smoking marijuana could lead to involvement with more serious drugs, such as heroin...
...Casual users of libraries are hardly aware of it, but library professionals and their more conscientious clients know about it all too well. They call it the "information explosion," and it has precipitated an odd paradox: most of the nation's public libraries have neither the money to buy nor the space to house the books and periodicals that a growing and insatiable public wants to read, while the technical disciplines-chiefly the sciences-have turned loose such a Niagara of information that even the wealthiest of corporate, collegiate or community libraries simply do not know what...
...fellow chronicler of Presidents, Political Scientist Sidney Hyman, who did much of the research for Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, an intimate book about another President, based on his aide's notes and published after both were dead. To Hyman, Schlesinger's use of "the casual chitchat of a dead man" was "the height of historical irresponsibility." Said he: "A husband and wife can quarrel like cats and dogs and then make love and forget it. To build the incident into a historical thesis is unrealistic...
...closets. But for golfers who liked to gamble, playing in tournaments without a purse was as dreary as dancing without music So betting slowly crept back to the links, and today members in hundreds of clubs across the country are watching fellow golfers practice putts with more than a casual interest. Many clubs are playing it safe, allowing only modest parimutuel bets; others have returned to the auctions of old, only slightly toned down. Wary in some cases of local ordinances against gambling while drinking (most Calcutta auctions are held after dinner parties), nervous about the Internal Revenue Service...
President Kennedy, despite the wit and saltiness of his conversation, was careful not to offend his subordinates or to undermine publicly their authority. It is hard to believe that he would have wanted either of these things to occur after his death through the repetition of casual and often perfunctory remarks to those in whom he thought he could confide...