Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids (and many adults) go barefoot, the primary hobby is beach-walking, and almost everyone seems to know everyone else. As a former resident puts it, life there is casual and tropical, "exactly what you'd think Florida should be." It is a middle-class dream of the place to go when the children are grown and retirement looms. For the next four years, Key Biscayne* will be President-elect Nixon's equivalent of the L.B.J. ranch or John Kennedy's Hyannisport compound...
Hundreds of these tags. But under the plain, deep and ominous, sometimes even bumping up against the surface, rages The American Civil War, the real one. A lost Confederate general, so scared he hears himself calling out his own name, "running through the casual but chess-like deaths in the Wilderness." A headlike corpse. Upstairs and downstairs. Marijuana smoke and cannon smoke. As the Poet sings: "A punctured lung, and the band plays on." The perfect Setup...
...first Dashiell Hammett book by accident. His writing comes in a form that most people don't expect to produce genius--the mystery. Books other than serious novels, it seems, don't "count" in people's minds; at least they aren't remembered and people, in their natural casual arrogance, think of the mystery as a second class literature...
Vonnegut writes his novel, as a series of events reported; his purpose, ostensibly, is to show us how one event led to the next event in a man's life, and how a whole situation of complicated events determined even further turns in his life. Vonnegut's casual comments revealing the true meaning of existence and identifying the nature of the values of most people in the population are either stuck in modifying clauses (so Vonnegut can be saying it without a heavy hand). Or Vonnegut puts great truths in the mouthes of characters who don't seem...
Although people acquire patterns of social behavior from television, they do not necessarily perform this behavior in their everyday interactions. The casual linkages of performance are more complex because other factors enter in as determinants. This same issue applies, of course, to the influence of television on consumer behavior. For example, a well-endowed blonde begs 50 million viewers to join the Dodge rebellion. Obviously 50 million people do not jump up and purchase Dodge automobiles. The televised influence increases the probability that Dodge cars will be purchased, but one would have to consider many other factors in predicting...