Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must alter the accepted, morally casual definition of the word "career" from "what one does throughout one's working life, which may or may not be socially responsible." to "what one does throughout one's working life, which is necessarily socially responsible." The career-seeker should seek to improve the world. This goal is not an unintended, incidental by-product, not even a secondary intention. Rather, one's primary intention is to improve the world both actively and directly--as unerringly as the word "seek" implies. All other intentions and by-products, though at times important, remain subordinate...
...that talk of him capturing the zeitgeist. Truth be told, we always did grin at that line about him being a loser and he always had been something of a likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into a casual aesthetic of sloppy cool. Mixing old school rap styling with twangy roots rock sounds, and fusing it all to an lo-fi punk philosophy, Beck wandered into the limelight as the ultimate slacker geek, announcing his own cheerful uselessness. His clueless sound had a certain novelty appeal, but he seemed less...
...Daysleeper" proves the album's number one hit, but some songs come out of the woodwork after casual listening. The keyboard riff in "Lotus" gives the feel of a sixties song with the almost chanted lyrics of Stipe, with his lower voice dubbed over kind of like "Drive" from Automatic. The descending guitar gives a raw edge that shows the change over the course of the past two albums, but unlike their previous raw guitar pieces, "Lotus" blends the raw sound into the fabric of the song in a way that neither accents it nor leaves...
...relationship between the faculty inresidence and the first-year students ranges fromacademic advising to a more casual surrogateparent role...
...campus of frazzled people. The casual, "Hello, how are you?" often elicits more than you may want to hear. "I have so much reading to catch up on. I can't believe it's midterms already...and I have a paper due tomorrow." Or maybe it's a roll of the eyes, accompanied by, "My roommates are driving me nuts. I can't believe how incompatible we all are." And there's the senior disease, "Uh...not so good. I'm having a crisis over what to do with the rest of my life...