Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mohammed. But a historian who paints so vast a canvas is bound to fudge some of the details. One of the disconcerting details of A Study of History has now been blown up to book-length size, where it is more disturbing than ever. It is Toynbee's casual indifference to the menace of Communism...
Dustin M. Burke '52, director of Student Employment and general manager of the Harvard Student Agencies, gave assurances last night that student groups which do not wish to use a new HSA agency managing entertainers will still be to obtain jobs from the casual payment office...
However, Taylor's exclusion of any first-rate author but Cooper perhaps overdoes a good thing. Precisely because the Southern Cavalier so closely resembled the Romantic hero--doomed, indecisive, in love with decay--it is a shame that Taylor does no more than mention Poe (in a casual reference to Roderick Usher) and the lesser-known Southern Gothics...
...peculiar blend of enterprise, prudence, knowledge and dedication, and husky (6 ft., 182 Ibs.) David Rockefeller has shown himself possessed of it. Born to millions, he has used the opportunity that was his by inheritance to apply himself to hard work and public service. Not for him the easy, casual, politically profitable familiarity of his older brother Nelson. ''I work because I enjoy work," says David, "and because it is my duty to use whatever talent I have for a worthwhile purpose." He does not question the worthwhileness of international banking...
...outpouring of the Russian literary samovar is not everybody's cup of tea. For casual readers in particular, and restrained Western taste in general, it can be too dark, too wild and too bitter a brew. Yet it is precisely a Slavic lack of restraint and a brooding sense of evil's presence in the world that give the great Russian novelists their widely remarked dramatic powers, and place them ahead of everyone else in a less remarked achievement: the creation of unforgettably grotesque characters. From Mikhail Saltykov's hypocritical Yudushka ("Little Judas") Golovlev, to Ivan Goncharov...