Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well, seduced families into retreating into houses with closed doors and shut windows, reducing the commonalty of neighborhood life and all but obsoleting the front-porch society whose open casual folkways were an appealing hallmark of a sweatier America. Is it really surprising that the public's often noted withdrawal into self-pursuit and privatism has coincided with the epic spread of air conditioning...
...work, Jordan has trouble saying no to friends and has accumulated some misfits on his own staff. His attire until last year was defiantly casual, featuring open-necked shirts and ankle-high boots. He seemed to work harder on his tennis game than on most policy problems. Says one friend: "Hamilton has been lax because he's had no specific responsibility...
Despite all of the exceptions, the 78° decree started a wave of more casual dress. Men were discarding suit jackets (the equivalent of reducing their workspace temperature by 3°), loosening or shedding ties (saving another 1°) and wearing short-sleeved shirts. Women in offices were turning to halter tops, looser fitting clothes and thinner fabrics...
...University has given permission for the organization to use the Weld boat house as a base for the "casual run." The event will start at the Larz-Anderson bridge and will go around the Charles River two-mile loops...
Parker's own hard-line commitment to rock is evident both in casual conversation ("I'm not about to give people music about rolling down the highway") and, where it properly belongs and truly flourishes, in his songs, which are like sneak attacks on his own psychic defenses. His tunes rock hard and burn bridges-and create the kind of commercial problems that have plagued Parker since his first record three years ago and seem to be easing only...