Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dubious Advice. Reuben employs his familiar casual coyness, strained informality, unconvincing case histories and weak jokes. There is also some sloppy scholarship and an occasional piece of dubious advice. For example, he gleefully quotes "a veteran police officer" who advises women threatened with imminent rape to take the assailant's testicles in one hand and smash them with the other. In his conflicting role as women's liberator and amiable guardian of traditional femininity, Reuben asks: "Should a woman really do something as terrible as that?" Naturally, the good liberal doctor would not want to be responsible...
...Institute maintained contact with undergraduates only through their Fellows, who would attend Radcliffe functions and occasionally offer freshman seminars. According to Alice K. Smith, dean, the Institute now feels "that a casual social contact with undergraduates is not sufficient...
Cool and elegant in sports shirt, Palm Beach slacks and casual loafers, Bunker relaxed in the well-appointed sitting room of his Saigon house...
...split is evident in his book, The Beat Generation-part sketchy sociology, part elementary lit. crit., part personal reportage and part casual Ph.D. thesis. "The almost schizophrenic change that has been worked in the temper of our times," Cook proclaims, "was predicted a decade before, implicit in every poem, novel and prose piece produced by the Beat Generation...
Those are diverting conceits, good enough, perhaps, for a casual short story, but flimsy as a basis for an entire film. Moreover, Doc is so redolent of a kind of New York cafe society chic that the Tombstone sa loon might just as well have been re-christened Elaine's. A minor New York City official in Mayor Lindsay's administration named John Scanlon appears as the bartender, and Dan Greenburg, author of How to Be a Jewish Mother, plays the editor of the Tomb stone Epitaph. They stand out like two polo players at a rodeo...