Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tullah," as she prefers to be addressed by even the most casual of acquaintances, cheerily invites any new friend to "feel how firm-I have the body of a girl." She now admits to 46 ("You can't be 20 for 40 years, but you can be 40 for 20 years") and boasts that "I haven't had bread in ten years. It was kiss or eat, and I'd rather kiss...
...Views of My Father Weeping, Barthelme even trivializes death. And by making it so casual, so dull, so buried in petty, everyday detail, he also makes the reader feel the horror of death as no apocalyptic heaping up of corpses could...
...members who wanted to resign, my mind was changed. I decided that a large part of the fury at our statement was based on conscientious political differences. As sure as the majority of the committee was that the four demands directly pointed to a confrontation with the university, our casual decision as to who was and and who wasn't on strike was an elitists mistake. I wanted to dissolve the committee and let individuals put forward their politics in an unofficial capacity. For reasons still unclear to me, the vote for dissolution failed. I felt strongly enough about...
...ARTICLES were originally written for a newspaper, with a deadline never too far ahead, and McNeill's style reflects this momentary character. A certain amount of professionalism tempers his rather casual attitude, and he manages a degree of objectivity despite his obvious sympathies with his subjects. The fact that McNeill wrote each article without any thought to or connection with any of the others, is valuable to the reader, for it permits him to make his own observations and conclusions without having to sift through any that were already there. The author doesn't try to analyze or measure...
Bator said, "From Packard we got a canned speech-a casual pat speech about his administration and Vietnamization and wiping out a few bases. He said it would all please us in just another six weeks. He seemed very aware of our campus origins. We reacted quite strongly...