Word: chalant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attendance last Saturday didn't need diplomas from Juliard to tell that "The Imperial March" was a mistake. Boos, hisses, and the kind of language normally reserved for referees were aimed at the band which as usual took it all in stride. "We try to be light, entertaining, non-chalant," said one band member after the fiasco. "The more crowd response we elicit the better--bad or good...
...hand, he later analyzes Whitman's masterpiece in more universal terms. Kaplan sees the centerpiece of Whitman's life as both a "Whitman at his best, and when he is at his awful worst--windy, repetitious, self imitative--one loves him for that too, he is so unworried, non-chalant...