Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong dorm affections, and the Masters see no reason to change this. Master Martin "would be distressed if silly inter-House rivalry developed." In his view, the Houses should not "increase parochialism." Their best contribution is to make living a mile from Harvard yard "more than eating, sleeping and casual chatting." Athletics might require House loyalty, says Martin, thinking does...
When the musicians of the Leningrad Philharmonic take the stage they look a little like a guards regiment on parade. They march on from opposite wings in cadenced step, and at times all 106 of them sit down in a single movement. Seated, they sometimes look to the casual observer about as animated as the tenants of a wax museum. But the appearance is deceiving. The Leningrad, now on its first tour of the U.S., is one of the world's great orchestras...
...Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin (who died in 1958) in a laboratory in London...
Woods, who was hand-picked for the job by Black himself, has the same sort of deceptively casual air as Black. He likes to drape his long, thin frame over a chair in his First Boston office, fix visitors with his liquid brown eyes and invite them to "walk around the problem." The walk is friendly and pleasant, but when it is over, the visitors usually find themselves accepting Woods's view...
...article notes that "there will always be customers desiring the lower prices of entertainers whom they secure" through the Casual Employment Office. The implication is that we "interested parties who wish to limit or eliminate competition" might not measure up to somebody's standards. That, gentlemen, hurts. Especially since HSA doesn't review the qualifications of the entertainers it plans to advertise...