Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his casual approach, Soglin has accomplished much in his first year in office. As alderman, Soglin supported a proposal to turn the city's State Street into a pedestrian mall. Last week construction began on the $15 million project, which had been vetoed by his predecessor, who feared it would turn the street into a hippie haven...
Some of it works and some of it does not. "To what end?" is a question that is three-quarters silly when queried about a knockabout entertainment, which uses the rape of Nanking as a casual scene shifter. The only answer is, "To the end of the book!" Still, the author does have a point of view: the human race is obsessively and sometimes grandly daft. Whittemore is a first novelist, age 41, an ex-Marine who learned Japanese as a Foreign Service officer in the Far East. He also served Mayor Lindsay in New York's antidrug addiction...
...Chester Kessler, president of the Clothing Manufacturers Association, contend that increases of the size the union is asking would send suit prices soaring and open the way to even more foreign competition from Europe, Canada and Japan. Moreover, a years-long style trend toward slacks, sports shirts and other casual wear has so hurt suitmakers that they say they cannot afford a substantial wage increase. Plummeting sales have reduced the number of men's suits produced from a high of 21.8 million units in 1965 to 16.7 million last year. At week's end both sides were meeting...
...noncollege youngsters believed that casual premarital sex was wrong. Now 34% hold that view...
...been living on the same floor with men for several years, Reid found little to worry about in the new pattern of housing. A few more of the women rooming in the coed dorms were having long-term love affairs than those in all-female dorms, but casual sex was no more common. Women students discovered that they can develop enduring platonic friendships with men and that they are far less self-conscious around them...