Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sleepless Night. The two old friends, both early prodigies, are widely different in their approach to music. Heifetz, blessed with the most superb natural dexterity that any violinist ever had, is almost negligently casual about his talent; at his first appearance as a soloist with a symphony at the age of eight, he fell asleep in a chair while waiting to go on. With success he acquired a taste for high life and a distaste for practice. It never seemed to make any difference in his playing. After one hectic binge, he went on to a performance in London...
...contrast to this casual perfection, big Gregor Piatigorsky is a warm, voluble, gregarious man who wraps himself around "this wonderful, beautiful, aristocratic instrument"-and the world -with a lover's tenderness...
Both these Russian bowmen have be come dedicated Californians; Los Angeles, they feel, will become the future cultural center of the U.S. "New York has been too casual about its cultural responsibilities," says Heifetz. Both live in swimming-pooled, tennis-courted luxury: Heifetz in a modern, gadget-strewn hilltop house in Beverly Hills, Piatigorsky in a rambling white frame mansion in nearby Brentwood...
...Department suggested that through less use of "casual" dockworkers (men working in the industry under 700 hours a year), job security for those more firmly attached to the labor force would be increased...
...until she was an upperclassman at the University of Texas. But she is one of the very, very few people I know who has never said an unkind, "catty" remark about anyone. She has no claws. She is a wonderful person, a constant friend, a most considerate and generous casual friend to many. Your article about her offended me deeply, as I am sure it will many of her friends when they read...