Word: off-handedly
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...freshman rifle team was outshot yesterday afternoon, 1,327 to 1,242, in a New England Collegiate Rifle League match with New Hampshire University at Durham, N.H. The two teams kept fairly even in the prone and kneeling shoots but New Hampshire swept the off-hand...
Radcliffe's foremost figure skater is a nationally known amateur from St. Paul, Minn. The record of her gay blades includes two summers of appearances in St. Paul's ice shows and dizzying twirls in more benefits and revues than she can name off-hand. Last winter she took a brief fling at monarchy as Queen of the snow and ice carnival at Carleton College, in, Northfield, Minn...
...pitifully few lecturers fall into that category; and all seem to be increasingly concerned with the recitation of factual data. The amount of personal contact between student and lecturer in a large lecture course is negligible. One of the most outstanding facts about the lecture system is its impersonalized, off-hand method of presentation. Except as far as they are restrained by a rather fluid attendance requirement, students can take lectures or leave them. Undergraduates walk into a lecture, listen long enough to find what is on the day's agenda; if they are uninterested, they walk...
...inventive in its preliminary pantomime as well as in vocal effects. In the long and generally non-rewarding part of Prince Hal, Bryant Halliday was more than adequate. His voice and diction were fine, as was his stage presence, but the interpretation of the part seemed at times almost off-hand...
...usual formula and coming to Boston after a winnowing road trip, "Anna Lucasta" is a relief from the glut of ubiquitous tryouts that usually dominate the Boylston boards. After long acquaintance, the cast has mastered its vehicle sufficiently to give a performance that is fluid throughout, practiced, but not off-hand. The difficult problem of presenting a prostitute with sympathy rather than derision is artistically accomplished and the mother's benevolent attitude toward her wayward daughter is made understandable, not ridiculous. The clash of wills between the unrelenting, religious father and his family is demonstrated so convincingly by inference...