Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crab Grass & Berets. In the White House, Kennedy is still a man in near-perpetual motion, interested in everything that goes on about him and casual enough to take a hand in anything that interests him. Amid his other duties, he had time to notice crab grass on the White House lawn and order it removed, and to order the Army's Special Forces to put back on the green berets that had earlier been banned ("They need something to make them distinctive"). When he wanted a haircut a few weeks ago after a hard day of work...
...Treatment. Whether with his family, at a casual dinner with friends, or working among his trusted aides, Kennedy has one overwhelming interest that shapes all his actions: politics. By instinct and training, he is a political creature who works 25 hours a day at politics...
...going to show up. Artemus Ward once said, about 50 years ago, 'I am not a politician and my other habits are good also.' " Arriving in Bal Harbour, Fla., for the annual convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., he greeted Big Labor's leaders with a casual weather report: "It's warmer here than it was yesterday...
...chances are that Brubeck's real sin is his popular success. One of the more adroit English critics, Benny Green of the London Observer, even managed to praise and condemn the same tour. In the program notes, which he wrote, Green found Brubeck's appeal "to the casual listener as well as to the specialist" to be "one of the most important assets any jazz musician can possess today." In his newspaper column Green grumped that "the quartet is so markedly deficient in certain essential jazz qualities that its popularity can hardly be regarded as a success...
When Karl's father died. Beethoven took the boy away from his mother, whose casual amours he denounced like a wrathful prophet-a recriminating compensation, some biographers say, for the syphilis Beethoven picked up in his own youth. He prescribed music for Karl, then philosophy. But Karl was no genius and joined the army instead. Beethoven was full of advice. In letter after letter, he upbraided the boy: "What distresses me most of all is the thought of the consequences which you will suffer as a result of your behaviour. No one will believe or trust...