Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, despite endless University propaganda to the contrary, it often seems that the University has only a casual interest in educating undergraduates. Although educated men do receive degrees every Commencement, they probably would have learned what they did at Harvard in any college. Harvard did not necessarily "make" them...
...hinge, a concealed projector lights up, a screen drops from the ceiling, and the group watches a new movie. Also a photographer of considerable skill, Paley displays his albums to guests at home. In the kind of company he usually keeps, he is hardly picture-dropping, but a casual flip of the pages turns up some remarkable names and moments: Anthony Eden, thin as wire, stretched out in a bathing suit at Cap d'Antibes during a sojourn with the Paleys in 1953; Pablo Picasso, trying to look rakish and dashing as he stands to be photographed beside...
Girls Aren't Things. Still, by and large, campus sex is not casual. Boys look down on a "community chest," meaning a promiscuous girl. Sociologist David Riesman believes that, far more so than in the '20s, boys treat girls as persons rather than objects: "They sit down and really talk with them...
...that talk is universally appreciated. When New York girls speak of a date as N.A.T.O., they mean contemptuously, "No Action, Talk Only." Some find the steady affair on the dull side. One Hunter girl told Writer Gael Greene: "Sex is so casual and taken for granted-I mean we go to dinner, we go home, get undressed like old married people, you know-and just go to bed. I mean I'm not saying I'd like to be raped on the living-room floor exactly. But I would love to just sit around on the sofa...
...inches per man. And twelve straight times, Wooden's team has run away with the game. Last week U.C.L.A. took on its cross-town rival, Southern Cal, dawdled long enough to let the Trojans build up an early lead, then turned on the pressure and romped to a casual 79-59 victory. At the season's midpoint, the Bruins were the nation's No. 1 team and the year's biggest surprise...