Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously no typical dropout, he went on to success and riches in show business. But he still feels mild pangs of guilt about his casual academic career, and the song is supposed to make dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...
Since Burns had been notably casual in his attitude toward Jacksonville's blooming racial conflict, his action infuriated the city's younger Negroes. Explained Ernest Lent, executive director of Jacksonville's Human Relations Council, later: "The leaders kept their anger under control, but the young people couldn't help but react. For a lot of them, of course, this was just an excuse to raise hell...
...Nymph & Satyr. To the casual eye, this dog walker, churchgoer and drinker of neighborly gins could be just another exurbanite worried about taxes and with strong views on zoning. But this is an obsessed man. Re-created in his novels and stories as Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor, the suburban region is subjected to terrible metamorphosis. It is not Sing Sing Prison straddling the New York Central tracks by the Hudson shore that is the worst destination of the inhabitants, but a netherworld of damnation. In Metamorphoses, one neighbor has suffered a magical transformation into Actaeon, torn...
...Graham's casual review of the results of the Easterns fails to cover entirely the performance of Tack Chace, who pinned twice in the unlimited class--first against Columbia and then against Temple in the consolations. Time and distance prevented Mr. Graham from attending the Easterns but he seems to have obtained enough information to indicate that Joel Raichlin of Syracuse ". . . helpfully sprained his ankle and had to default...
Experimentation with drugs could help in studying the origin of religious beliefs, Smith said. "There might be a casual relationship between the use of drugs and religious beliefs," he said. "Use of drugs might have suggested religious ideas, that then became institutionalized...