Word: offhands
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...what led the informant to conclude that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted. The informant's "meager report," said Justice John Harlan for the majority, "could easily have been obtained from an offhand remark heard at a neighborhood bar." Nor, said the court, does the FBI agent's report make up for the shortcomings in the informant's story...
...dollar, it is still under enough suspicion that even an offhand, ill-advised remark by a high official can cause a speculative flurry. Last week David M. Kennedy, Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, refused to make the ritual pledge that the U.S. will maintain the official price of gold at $35 per ounce. "I want to keep every option open," he said. Next day, the free market price of gold jumped in London to a six-month high of $41.82, and Nixon Press Aide Ron Ziegler tried to quiet the uncertainty by declaring: "We do not anticipate...
Though disappointing, Anti-Memoirs is a remarkable cultural confection, especially for readers armed with some prior knowledge of Malraux and France, not to mention a tolerance for offhand allusions to everything from Vishnu to Vichy water. Its most accessible elements are brief recollections of personal danger, each spiced with the author's sense of fate and history. Such incidents were chosen because they brought Malraux, the man of action, face to face with death-and the limitations of human courage-just as his lifetime has brought him face to face with the limitations of the revolutionary aims that...
...will. God would judge the importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint of emphasis, his offhand delivery which would insist that remarks about the future of the world were best delivered in the tone you - might employ for buying a bottle of aspirin, gave hint of his profound conservatism...
...music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that in the composer's day chamber-music playing was as offhand as it is reverential today, Ustinov says: "Mozart provided the Muzak for the period. The Archbishop of Salzburg and other such philistines went on talking through the first performance of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; I'm sure ice cream spilled, dogs barked." After listening to Ustinov, the rest of the recording seems more...