Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation last week in his first major speech. "Let's get on with it." So saying, he set off on a week of action perhaps unmatched in the White House since the most frenetic days of Lyndon Johnson. Though any new Administration is necessarily active, the casual Ford made it all seem unhurried, genial...
...special prosecutor yet learns about Nixon's Watergate role in the tapes he is now acquiring. His staff indicated last week that it has no plans to subpoena any more tapes or documents from the ex-President. Nevertheless, the Jaworski team demonstrated that it had more than a casual interest in the 950 reels of taped Nixon conversations still locked up in the Executive Office Building. Among their final official acts, Nixon's chief Watergate defense lawyers, James St. Clair and J. Fred Buzhardt, advised Ford's staff that under past precedent, the tapes were the personal...
...this time Nicholson had discovered that the "secret inner pressure about monogamy" was too great for him to bear, and he ambled off into a series of casual affairs. He and Sandra separated while he was writing the script for an LSD epic called The Trip-under medical supervision, Sandra once had a bad acid experience and was spooked by the subject-and when Nicholson finished the assignment, they decided to split up for good...
...Guerre Est Finie is a political essay about the remnants of the Old Left revolution, directed by Alain Resnais and starring Yves Montand. The film is not casual entertainment in any sense, and if that's what you're up for this week see something else. But if you're interested in how it felt to be a leftist in the days of the party line, if you feel any sympathy at all for the single-minded pursuit of a political dream, then see this by any and all means. Resnais's movie will touch you, inform you, will make...
Many conservatives-or traditionalists, as some prefer to be called-are also alarmed at what they see as the casual abandonment of a culture that once seemed both rich and reassuring. They miss not only the Latin Mass and many familiar old hymns but many other pious practices that have been widely discarded since Vatican II: novenas, benediction, meatless Fridays, priests wearing cassocks and birettas, nuns wearing wimples. The old rituals and disciplines were visible symbols that Catholics were different from (and perhaps better than) other people. Many who resent the passing of traditional Catholic ways seem to feel that...