Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comfortably. The freedom from tension has pervaded all levels and classes. At a political rally recently, Sole Leader Kassem orated to his working-class audience: "Like you, I have only one shirt." Out of the crowd came a heckler's cry: "Before you came, I had two." Such casual impudence belongs to Iraq's new mood...
...guests no longer need passes to get inside the housing area; even so, few of Los Alamos' longtime residents can claim many friends in the New Mexico communities near by. Los Alamos' young married couples (average age of the AEC staffer is 39) entertain each other at casual patio dinners where the talk is more dazzling than the food, throng to a suburbia-sized horde (146) of civic organizations ranging from the Flying Saucer Square Dance Club to the Military Order of Lady Bugs. Dress is studiously informal: a woman in hat and gloves is clearly going...
...American educator who was employed by the Ministry of Education of the Imperial Ethiopian Government for nine years, I have followed the events of the past few weeks in that unhappy country with more than a casual interest...
This may be one of the oldest marriage stories in the world. Then why read it? Because Author Barstow often makes the human situation quiver on the page. Vic tells the story in the first person-and in rich, casual slang-with a kind of boyish innocence that is no mere storytelling contrivance. Everything from inexperienced sex to the showdown with mother-in-law has the edge of simple truth on it. In the end, the fact that Vic's story has been played out so often before wherever boy met girl does no damage; on the contrary...
...from Doggy's role in the gang to Doggy's relationship with his mother, and finally to the mother herself. I hesitate to disclose any part of the carefully worked out plot with its sudden, horrible revelations, or to point out the occasional overly poetic verbosity which threatens the casual done of the story, in which nearly every detail carries weight...