Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This country thrives on slogans. If we are going to get Stuart Symington nominated and elected, we will need a series of corny slogans to attract the attention of the casual voter. Slogans such...
...last ten years, patrons of learning have enjoyed Lamont Library. Its 10-15,000 reserve books include the most important reading in undergraduate courses, while the building itself provides space for over 1,000 students. At casual glance, the facilities offered by Lamont seem ample...
...homosexuals are pathologically jealous and "unfaithful." Some have relations with more than 100 males a year. Few relationships last more than several weeks; the most common type is the "one-night stand" or the five-minute meeting in a public park or even a comfort station. With contacts so casual, venereal disease runs wild. (One survey showed that almost 10% of male homosexuals are carriers, v. a fraction of 1% of arrested female prostitutes...
...Finnegans Wake is a masterpiece, or a monstrous jungle of word play. Nor does he ask whether Joyce's famed "interior monologue" really reveals anything, or whether T. S. Eliot was correct when he suggested that "it doesn't tell as much as some casual glance from outside often tells...
Social awareness is certainly not ignored but to a large degree it is set aside every Monday to await its Friday renaissance. Speaking of the casual, often Bohemian, weekday dress, one junior jokingly commented, "At Sarah Lawrence, if you're ugly, it's because you choose to be, and this is your mark of individuality." Her remark was a reflection both on the Sarah Lawrence reputation for good looking girls and on the unconcern for social affairs during the week. It also reflects the respect for individualism felt by the student body, and the suspicion that this individualism...