Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film heretical, and Bogart himself is said not to have liked it much, but it's an indisputably clever bit of whimsey. Written by Truman Capote and John Huston and filmed by Huston's own company on the Gulf Sorrento in Southern Italy, the whole production was a casual vacation exercise for Huston and some of his actor-friends who happened to be in the area at the time...
...Eliot was modest, kind, immensely loyal to his friends. He was thought to be formidably reserved, but that was because he did not like casual chatter and hated to be lionized. Among close friends, he was unfailingly good company. His grave courtesy concealed astringent wit; he also liked jokes of the kind where the cushion, when sat on, makes a rude noise. He was tirelessly, patiently encouraging to young poets who wrote or sent manuscripts to him at Faber & Faber, the London publishing house where for many years he was a partner...
Sunday, at lunch, Dr. King dropped a couple of casual remarks about discussing this or that with the President. I mentioned this to a friend last night; he laughed and told me I had it all wrong. "When Lyndon Johnson says he talked with Martin Luther King--that's name-dropping." Which underlined for me how far our Nobel Laureate, natty as a J. Press ad in his three-piece continental suit--(no cuffs, laceless black shoes), is from the scarred and faceless Negro worker who's getting the hell beat out of him in Mississippi. It was Martin King...
...without some degree of shock and disbelief that I read the Jan. 5 article on the University's view of narcotics. It would seem that the Health Services is being overly casual in view of the fact that, despite is alleged harmlessness, marijuana often leads to the use of more potent, addictive narcotics...
Flagged by Flunkenstein. Grades, being serious news, need casual names. A's are aces, C's are hooks, D's are dandies or dogs, E's are eagles and F's are frongs or keepers. (B's are B's.) A University of Florida student who Christmas-trees it with flunkenstein is one who marks the answers on a multiple-choice exam in a repetitive pattern without reading the questions, then gets a failing grade from an IBM machine. A flunking student has flagged it, flushed it or tubed...