Word: casuals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Radio Comedian Fred Allen's dry wit, these letters will seem a disservice to Allen's ghost. To anyone who cannot, sorting through this epistolary mountain for the occasional glint of gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets are there all right; even in his casual correspondence, Fred Allen could not resist the comic muse, whether diagnosing his own health ("I find myself winded after raising my hat to a lady acquaintance") or commiserating with a toothless pal, who "has been living by sucking the butter off asparagus." Freelance Writer Joe McCarthy, who claims to have...
...wilder blue yonder with an Air Force fighter squadron against the Viet Cong. Tired of designing fashions, Winnie Winkle has joined the Peace Corps, and is headed for underdeveloped Pornacopia. But Peanuts and pals are far removed from melodramatic plots and realistic art. They employ instead a deceptively casual style of drawing (the "toothpick school," says one cartoonist) and a whimsical, often biting humor...
There is, in fact, a lifetime of observation encapsulated in Charlie Brown, although Schulz is at once serious and casual about it all: "Of course, there is lots of meaning. But I can't explain it. What the people see in it, that's what...
...have focused on the male desire to look young and rugged. In men's shoes, the pinched, pointed-toe "Italian look" is out; it has been replaced by broader toes, bolder stitching, longer wing tips and plentiful perforations. Shoemakers have succeeded so well in selling men on the casual look that sales of sneakers, sandals and moccasins are expected to equal those of regular shoes this year. The industry has also brought out dozens of suède-and cloth-topped models with such names as Floaters, Renegades, Tweedies, and Lazy Bones...
...Longer Hidebound. The hard drive to sell more shoes is a product of some major changes in the shoe industry. The industry has been for decades a casual and fragmented father-to-son business, with a relatively high rate of profit (up to 20% on invested capital) and little mechanization; even today 220 people work on the average pair of shoes. In the last few years, however, mergers and some failures have reduced the numbers of producers by 10%, and the few big manufacturers -International, Brown, Endicott Johnson, Genesco and U.S. Shoe-have expanded their share of the market...