Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test I would first scratch the tender top of my head, look around to see if someone was watching, then proceed to brood over my strange sex life, occasionally invoking the Devil while thinking bad, often terrible, words to fortify my strange and peculiar thoughts. Trying to be casual, I would then light a match, which is normal procedure before my daily conversation with God. After completing the quiz, I would leave the room (carefully using my new handkerchief on the doorknob) and hurry home to repair the door latch...
...bath and a soft bed, a husband's casual words of praise after dinner...
...considers to be constitutional reapportionment. This fact was caustically noted by Justice John Marshall Harlan in a dissent to the New York decision. Wrote Harlan, who had also dissented to the original one-man, one-vote ruling: "I am wholly at a loss to understand the Court's casual way of disposing of this matter. The Court should be willing to face up articulately to these difficult problems which have followed as a not unnatural aftermath of its reapportionment decisions of last term. These matters bristle with difficult and important questions that touch the nerve centers of the sound...
...airport road into Dar es Salaam is usually clogged with herds of humpbacked Boran cattle, handsome women in gaudy tradecloth, and barbers in nightgowns who playfully ply their razors in open shade beneath the flame trees. Last week that casual character changed. At the beginning of the nine-mile route, cadres of the Tanzanian People's Defense Force stood tautly at attention, carrying shiny new Chinese automatic rifles. Claques of cheering Africans waved Chinese Communist flags and chanted: "Chou Enlai, Chou En-lai!" Riding along the route in an open Rolls-Royce beside beaming President Julius Nyerere, Red China...
...high point of mingei came during the Edo period, a time of Japanese prosperity in isolation preceding Admiral Perry's naval foray, which in 1853 opened the door to the West. Folk art was austere, subdued, even restrained in its lack of showy flourish and its casual asymmetry. The anonymous artisan's ideal was shibui, which translates as "astringent" or, as a contemporary mingei potter defines it, "ordered poverty." Mingei is still created in Japan today; the Japan Folk Craft Society has 3,000 members and the government has named 31 craftsmen as living "Intangible Cultural Assets...