Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance to a feast...
Algiers, once one of the most beautiful of cities, is becoming the ugliest. To the casual eye, there is no change. The square white houses still climb on each other's shoulders up to the wooded heights. In the Moslem quarter, the casbah's tunneled alleys are filled with turbaned men and neat-stepping donkeys burdened with panniers. Beneath the leafy shade of the Forum and along the Rue Michelet in the European district stroll some of the loveliest girls in the world, giggling and gossiping as if they were not a step away from a daily round of slaughter...
Personally, John Kenneth Galbraith is almost as popular in India as Ed Reischauer in Japan. Natural American Galbraith has shucked business suits and neckties for casual sports shirts and white-hunter-style bush jackets. In his eagerness to talk to villagers in the middle of a paddyfield, he has even shucked his shoes. One of Galbraith's minor but highly welcome public relations gestures was to wheedle a $15,000 Ford Foundation grant so that he could distribute U.S. books to Indians. Jawaharlal Nehru took a bundle on his last vacation, reported that he was particularly tickled...
Like Tennessee Williams, for one. The picture begins with a casual case of rape. The victim is a college girl (Carroll Baker, in private life Mrs. Garfein) who goes skipping through a New York City park alone after dark. When she comes to, she tidies her clothes, staggers home, sneaks upstairs past her prudish parent (Mildred Dunnock). In a meticulous ritual of hysteria, she cuts up her torn clothes, flushes them down the drain, pops into bed as if nothing had happened, as if out of sight were really out of mind...
...made him seem all the pinker to Americans. Yet his stand on the Baruch Proposal should absolve him; his current outlook may be wrong, but it cannot justly be called anti-western. Moreover, the uncanny accuracy of his previous prognostications should haunt his opponents. Russell simply does not deserve casual disregard...