Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they can document with snapshots the minutiae of their children's lives as exhaustively as Gesell and Spock have traced their development. The exhibition includes a number of such photos as well as the highly realistic work of Painters John Koch and Robert Bechtle, who depict children in casual poses: sitting around the pool with their parents or standing by the family Chevrolet. Less self-conscious than the old portraits, they remain, nonetheless, stored glimpses of the children's hour...
Translating Gotterdammerung just forces casual listeners to notice these troubles, which they could ignore when they weren't following the plot carefully and just revelled in the glorious music. The music is what we respect Wagner for today; his ill-conceived theories about unity of drama and music, based on very frail analogy to classical Greek tragedy, now find few admirers, especially since he himself failed to apply them carefully. And the music is much less well-served by this recording sonically and artistically than by Georg Solti's classic 1964 Decca set. If there is a need for Wagner...
Teach my children at home [Dec. 4]? The American housewife has performed a multirole job for so long, for so little, that heaping yet another "small" responsibility on her seems too casual. Mr. Educational Theorist Holt, you are not, nor will you ever be a mother. Even to suggest that we cheat ourselves out of that wonderfully inevitable day when the little kiddies finally start first grade is cruel. I'm "mothered...
...trouble with the now pervasive clinical view of the holidays is that, along with offering undeserved comfort to unreconstructed Scrooges, it tends to confuse many perfectly healthy people about their own emotional condition. Even casual observation confirms that many weave through the holidays feeling vaguely like victims-acutely aware of the supposedly malignant pressures that the diagnosticians always talk about. No mystery here. With a consciousness razed by standard holiday pathology, even an intelligent adult may tend to construe the pressure as a symptom of something bad and imminent. In fact, that pressure is primarily only the moving power...
...building will serve as a religious and cultural center for "both the devout and the casual Jews" of the Harvard and Cambridge communities, Morgenthau said...