Most members of the staff are college students who are themselves veteran guests, creating an easy informality among wranglers, waiters and visitors.

As dusk falls, nature herself dims the house lights for communal celebration, all the more joyous for its easy informality.

In the easy informality of the day, the old man called me "Bub" and I called him "Mr. Hooker."

But, and Cameron sensed this, behind a brave front, the gentle courtesy and the easy informality of their talk, there was a gnawing feeling of desperation.

In fact, Frank intended his furniture designs, many of them still in production, to be coupled with the owner's own mismatching chairs to create an easy informality.

But if its retired admirals and affluent conservatives did not welcome Mr. Clinton with open arms, its golden beach suffused him in an easy informality.

'Listen, you guys,' said Admiral Bergstrom, slipping into the easy informality this particular high command had always enjoyed.

In a sense, they still lived in a world of innocence, and one powerful expression of it was an easy informality between officers and ratings.

He exudes the kind of easy informality that masks formidable technical mastery and an intense competitive drive.

"I believe you need to get to know about me quickly," he added, demonstrating an easy informality and perhaps belying the stereotypes about uptight psychiatrists.