Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...included in the first number of a schol- arly journal known as the Fitzgerald-Hemingway Annual. Written shortly before the novelist's death in 1940, "Dear-ly Beloved" carries the familiar Gatsbyesque message that reality rarely adapts itself to a dreamer's dreams. It ends with the casual, melancholy remark, "So things...
...hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least, were high school or college students from middle-class homes. But at Bethel thev exhibited to the world many of the hippie values and life styles, from psychedelic clothing to spontaneous, unashamed nudity to open and casual sex. Youthful imaginations were captured, most obviously, by the hippie sound: the driving, deafening hard beat of rock, music that is not just a particular form of pop but the anthem of revolution. The Jefferson Airplane, one of the first and best of the San Francisco groups, sang...
...been no need to hire additional staffers. Teacher Jeanine Lewis of Grady High School says the new courses "keep me from being stalemated, and they add spice for the students, too." Mrs. Lewis believes the new system will also help dropouts ease back into school during the more casual summer quarter, when teachers can take more time to work with them...
Arrest. In a college town, where casual relationships with strangers are common, security precautions are of limited value. Sorority girls who live on Washtenaw Avenue, for example, still hitchhike rather than walk the two miles to campus, and campus bulletin boards abound with notices of girls seeking weekend rides. Once the fall session starts, campuses will again bustle with mixers, where young men and women traditionally seek to meet strangers. One coed said last week: "We're not talking about the creature from the Black Lagoon. We're talking about a smooth guy −or guys...
EVEN if their mission is a complete triumph, the Apollo 11 astronauts will face a reception far different from those accorded to previous space heroes on their return to earth. There will be no casual camaraderie with the frogmen after splashdown, no lengthy welcoming rites aboard the recovery carrier, no embraces with their wives in Houston. The moon voyagers will be treated-literally-as if they had the plague...