Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sarcasm or wit. I admit that Ms. Kirk should have known better than to trust The Crimson with a chance to use swear words in a front-page story. (I do wonder how your alumni readers as well as parents who subscribe to your newspaper react to your casual use of "mother fucking" on the front page.) Nonetheless, I feel that your reporter, or at least an editor should have taken more care with the victim of such a disaster and aimed for a more empathetic story, rather than treating the event as a spectacle...
Swados and research director Christopher Terrio '97 have chosen some unconventional texts to adapt for the stage. The pieces range from casual stories of personal experience and issue-driven rants to humorous dialogues and touching poems. One story is about a little girl who says she's going to Christ; another involves a man trying to start a conversation with a woman sitting next to him on a bus. Others focus on more particular aspects of society, including race, sexuality and technology. Yet the large majority of the writing chosen illuminates the motivating forces that hold people together in confusing...
...author seems to have dropped his pants and not cared: each piece is full of painful, embarrassing details presented as casual confessional. But Sedaris' earnest delivery never conceals his subversive, impish wit, a thing upon which the world's pretentions and neuroses are skewered...
...break fasts), even a bimonthly newsletter. Each activity adds to a sense of community. And a great deal of effort is devoted to promoting interaction through gatherings of all shapes and sizes. However, the importance of interaction is easy for a religious organization to forget; it was exactly the casual interaction that was lacking from my HIS experience...
Finally, I would encourage all religious groups to organize a broader variety of social activities in order to give a fuller context to the religious experience. Without the trust born of casual interaction, a religious organization will not be a true community; its members will leave events feeling isolated and strangely discontented. However, when members of a religious group are immersed in friendly and varied interchange, the group becomes more than an after-school activity; it takes on the feeling of community...