Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilization, there is not a line of dialogue. The book's most vivid presence is that of Author Stacton, brooding in mordant aphorisms about the uses of power. Everything is stated in epigrams, and he can drop the material for an evening's argument into an apparently offhand phrase such as: "Like all fanatics, he thought in negatives...
...expert was too cagey to take the test at all. "I could say." said James Rorimer, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "that I can't see without my glasses." A trifle icily he added: "People shouldn't come in to a dinner party and give offhand opinions about what's genuine and what's fake. They don't in the medical profession...
...PAULA PRENTISS, 5 ft. 9¼ in. and perhaps, at 22. still growing, is turning in consistently fine performances with all the easygoing, offhand grace of a basketball center, which she used to be. She has too many deep-eyed good looks to be an all-the-way comedienne and too much height for a standard ingenue, so she has balanced herself neatly between the two - in Where the Boys Are, with Brigid Bazlen in The Honeymoon Machine, and in Bob Hope's Bachelor in Paradise, scheduled for release in November. While at Lamar High School in Houston, Paula...
...paper deals drummed up in the East, realistic Brazilians expect only a fraction. Says a senior U.S. diplomat in Rio: "If Khrushchev thinks he can make a sucker out of Quadros, he's badly mistaken." Adds Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos: "Brazil will not recognize the Soviet Union offhand, and will not recognize Red China for two or three years-certainly not until it is accepted at the U.N. We are committed to vote for debate on the Red China issue, but will not vote in favor of Red China's admission...
Chiefs of NATO nations have received invitations to meet President Kennedy at the next NATO Council meeting to be held in Oslo this May. Such a first trip abroad as President would be the most practical way for him to greet all allied leaders at once and in an offhand way-without the panoply and expectations of a formal "Western summit." Before he goes he will have made his first major foray into personal diplomacy on U.S. soil, welcoming British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan on a "working" visit to Washington, beginning April...