Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctor's Wife," a young man is suddenly flooded with deep and impersonal shame by a casual insinuation that his tanned wife is part Negro. In a different story, a high schol debater pursues a girl disliked by both family and his friends to balm the hurt of a debating defeat. Both young men are the victims of a grinding anguish...
...Alan Nunn May. Though a known homosexual and prone to savage fits of violence, flabby, fair-haired Donald Maclean was privy to top-level U.S. atomic information as wartime First Secretary in Britain's Washington embassy, later headed the American desk in the Foreign Office. To one casual acquaintance, Maclean's allegiance to Communism "stuck out a mile." Yet, though they might be "eccentric," both were "gentlemen." Today, there are still many in Britain who scream "McCarthyism" at the suggestion that scientists or civil servants should be more closely screened. This month, in the wake of two other...
Many of those present at the Parkman Bandstand rally were not, however, sympathetic to Turn Toward Peace. A large group of "casual hecklers" gathered in the back of the Bandstand area, and about ten extreme anti-Communists paraded in front of the speakers' podium shouting slogans and disrupting the proceedings at several points...
Gardner, 49, a deceptively casual Californian who took his doctorate in psychol ogy at the University of California at Berkeley. A prewar teacher at Mount Holyoke, Gardner is himself an example of Carnegie foresight. The corporation spotted him when he was a Marine Corps captain assigned to the OSS, and by 1955 he was president. One of the few top "philanthropoids" to rise through foundation ranks, Gardner is also one of the few with a gift for words. Gardner chiefly drafted the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's famed The Pursuit of Excellence, followed it with his own thoughtful book, Excellence...
...accepting the Government's proposal that all members of what it calls "the Du Pont family group" be required to sell any G.M. shares that they might receive under the Du Pont Co. or Christiana divestment programs, La Buy ruled that many younger Du Ponts "having only the casual contacts normal to third and fourth cousins" should not come under the order...