Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This spring the Institute of Politics, received 82 applications--27 more than last year--for grants to support summer thesis research. Nora F. Littlefield, the Institute's student programs assistant said last month a casual glance at the applications shows that more people plan to use their awards this summer to support positions employers cannot find funding for rather than thesis research...
...said, because he had to complete his studies. But what if there was to be no more university? he was asked. "The government could not let that happen," he said, shocked. "The Americans would not let them." Soldiers seemed to be everywhere but at the front. They strolled in casual groups of two or three throughout the town. Jeeps were filled with courting couples or officers cruising from...
...Vinegar Puss (written mostly during the past five years) show Perelman at his second best. But this is usually the case in humor collections: the author is always made to look as if he is playing Can You Top This? with himself. Pieces that look good in the casual format of a weekly magazine are rudely upstaged by the hand ful that are very good...
...casual analysis linking his past history and present behavior might seem unjustified. But Skinner himself writes, "perhaps I have answered my mother's question 'what will people think?' by proving that they do not think at all." In much the same way, Skinner says that behaviorism has helped him to "resolve [his] early fear of theological ghosts," which his grandmother instilled in him by equating the concept of hell with the glowing bed of coals in his parlor stove. One might, the young liberty bound-selling boy scout lay awake all night "in an agony of fear" after seeing...
...Kawabata's lightness of touch, Beauty and Sadness may appear on casual reading to be rather slight. Yet it is perhaps the most elegantly constructed of Kawabata's novels. Like all of his works, it needs to be relished by the reader slowly, more like poetry than prose: associations must be given time to form, small details must be carefully absorbed. Kawabata was a master lyricist and a great writer about love; behind the misty outlines of his style one is bound to find a solid artistic core...