Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thirteen houses of Harvard College. Judging from the fact that each college was treated with such circumspection and discretion, one might have guessed that they were written by a joint committee representing the admissions office and various masters' offices. A tired litany of "diversity" and "uniqueness" soon put any casual reader to sleep...
...biggest group that's into line dancing is people looking for something to do with the opposite sex without drinking," says Steve Cross, a dance instructor at Tooles, in Phoenix, Arizona. "It's a safe way to meet someone without hearing, 'Can I buy you a drink?' " The casual ambience is an attractive alternative to the pickup scene. "Dancing's a way to have fun without getting into emotional relationships," says Mike Martinelli, a college student who works as a waiter at Nashville's Wrangler...
...that they should be on the list of excluded? Notwithstanding Reiter's almost laughable claims that "routine contact between [the carriers] and the uninfected community will certainly include sexual activity" and that "intravenous drugs may well become another regular medium of interaction," (italics mine) it is well established that casual contact between persons cannot facilitate the spread of the AIDS virus. In fact, if all unmarried couples just practiced abstention, the favorite Reagan-Bush prescription for the AIDS crisis, these immigrants would pose no problem whatsoever...
...Casual, no-big-deal-but-let's-just-get-better-acquainted dating is, however, another story. Why is Harvard's dating scene such an ongoing source of gripes? Several theories exist...
...offers as its rationale the fact that AIDS and other such diseases are not transmitted by casual contact the way tuberculosis is. In order to assert this, however, the department must implicitly define casual contact in a narrow and unrealistic way that is more appropriate to describe the situation of visitors than of proposed long-term residents...