Word: casuals
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...They all--in one manner or another--were recruited. But they constitute exceptions. The varsity athletes who compose the bulk of Crimson squads had a bare minimum of contact with the athletic department prior to admission. Even alumni "scouting" is for the most part random and informal. Sometimes, the casual approach proves advantageous for Harvard. As one Crimson athlete says, "Princeton turned me off because the coach was so insistent it bothered me. It felt nice to be wanted, but I began to think twice about the relative importance of athletics...
...between--but they can't argue with his results. The entire film rushes along to Kansas City 4/4 time; a spare 91 minutes long, The Last of the Blue Devils is one sweet breath of Kansas City air, heady enough for rabid jazz fans and casual filmgoers alike...
...casual pedestrian will notice nothing more than a pronounced bulge of red bricl and glass emerging from the K-School and creeping toward the Square. In fact, CRP classes will remain in Gund Hall until the construction is completed in late 1982. But deep within Harvard's showpiece graduate school Dean Graham T. Allison Jr. '62 and his colleagues will be thrashing through a major reevaluation of the institution's educational goals...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 465, on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, might not strike the casual reader as an inflammatory document. Yet in the arcane world of diplomacy, its language is unusually severe. It "strongly deplores" the settlements, calls them "a flagrant violation" of the Fourth Geneva Convention and cites "the grave consequences" that this Israeli policy may have on attempts to negotiate a permanent peace in the Middle East. The resolution is also rife with politics-laden buzz words to which Israeli officials and their American-Jewish supporters are particularly sensitive...
Gaudy banners snapped with irrelevant verve in an emptied winter wonderland. To the casual eye, it appeared that the 13th Olympic Winter Games were over and done with. Yet one final, unlisted event was under way well before the last athletes had straggled out of Olympic Village. The happening: the great downhill plunge from celebrity to obscurity. The sole entrant: Lake Placid, N.Y. (pop. 2,700), U.S.A...