Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Look for this song to be blasting out of jukeboxes and car radios across America very soon. It quite literally has everything--a musical hook that won't quit; a lyric tag you won't be able to forget; strong, simple orchestration; and best of all, a sly and casual vocal with Scaggs fitting his voice to the lyrics as well as he's ever done. The song is fully within the "Silk Degrees" style, but it shows a sure touch, a confidence and sense of command that's nowhere in evidence on the earlier album...
...officially the Institute for Sex Research), which is being used as the basis of a book entitled American Sexual Standards, to be published next year. Like the Yankelovich survey, the Kinsey study of 3,000 people showed a substantial majority (72% to 87%) disapproving of adultery, homosexuality, prostitution and casual sex among adolescents. "What really surprised us," Colin J. Williams, coauthor of the study, told TIME, "was that there existed such a hard-core bunch of conservatives in the country." In numerous places in the study, there are 20% to 40% that term "everything absolutely wrong. We call this moral...
Barbara Seaman, author of Free and Female, goes further: "The backlash is against casual sex because a lot of people were hurt. It was as if there was a train gradually carrying us away from Victorian morality, but then suddenly in the '60s and '70s the train became a runaway, and a lot of passengers were injured. Now the brakes are starting to be repaired...
...question for all you casual Harvard sports fans out there: which House, in the past week, booted its way to a 1-0 victory in the championship game to snag the House soccer title, pranced to the intramural touch football crown with a 12-7 aerial bombing of Mather, romped to Harvard's only triumph over Yale in House vs. College tackle football action and had four of its residents elected captains of next season's fall sports squads...
...ramp leading into the orchestra seats. Anyone who has visited the Charles Playhouse knows it to be small verging on intimate, and a platform jutting out into the audience only heightens that feeling. Most of the song and dance routines take place on the ramp, giving the action a casual immediacy...