Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual fashion, juvenile judge got to know juvenile delinquent. Wearing sports shirts and slacks or shorts, 32 judges took long walks, played ball and sipped sodas with 33 youths from the Lookout Mountain School for Boys, a reform school in Golden, Colo. And the jurists learned a few things...
...Another long-standing grievance is the practice of raiding homes of mothers on welfare to see whether there is a man around. If even a casual lover is flushed, he may be designated a "substitute father," which can disqualify the family for welfare aid. The raids ae conducted without search warrants or voluntary consent. Earlier this year, after Social Worker Benny Max Parrish refused to go on one, the California Supreme Court ruled that pre-dawn raids aimed at discovering a "man in the house" are unconstitutional. The California ruling may prompt challenges to such raids in other states...
...casual observer must sense a precipitous decline in anti-war activity since April's peace march brought several hundred thousand daffodiled protestors to New York City. Throughout April, the demonstration--and Martin Luther King's much publicized switch to active dove --captured headline after headline. But since then the peaceniks have not been in the top of the news at all. Where have all the flowers gone? Has the movement really wilted? Don't believe...
Since the decline of literary existentialism, French fiction has been dominated by four authors-Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Butor and Duras-who write the anti-roman, the non-novel in which characters are impersonal, time floats out the window, and action is as fragmented as a cracked kaleidoscope. The casual reader may well have trouble telling one anti-novelist from another, but in the case of Marguerite Duras, the problem is simple: she is the only natural writer. The others construct fiction to demonstrate a pet theory. She writes about people and their moods with incomparable ease and sensuality...
...negotiations were not a casual event. The whole thing had almost been written off as a disaster. Instead, it ended with what may be a formula for a kind of social reconciliation," he concluded...