Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rawls' book becomes a hallucination of modern life's ills distorted by the horror of Fairview into a warning against casual, daily insensitivity. For we see how easy it is for people, and for the "system," to become desensitized, to leave places in life like Farview hidden and forgotten...
...dream is coming true. This week, the tiny (pop. 2,997) and casual Adirondack village plays host to the world as athletes from 37 countries, along with journalists and fans from just about everywhere, gather for the 13th Olympic Winter Games. A crew of 200 translators fluent in two dozen or so languages has been brought in to smooth the competitors' way. A Panzer division of vehicles -buses, cars, vans, snowmobiles and four-wheel-drive mountain climbers-has been assembled to transport people and supplies...
...many odd, speculative spots in the universe, most of Ursula Le Guin's 19 books were conceived and written in one place: an 80-year-old four-story frame house perched on the west bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. The rooms are large, the furniture casual, obviously lived-and lounged-in by the three Le Guin children, who grew up there: Elisabeth, 22, Caroline, 20, and Theodore, 15. An occasional antique betrays an interest in the past; Charles Le Guin, Ursula's husband of 26 years, teaches history at Portland State University. Only one touch...
...single parents. New sexual rules came into play. With a speed at least startling and at worst scandalous, the decade absorbed the '60s' extravagantly experimental sexual mores into the main currents of American society. Marriage became only one extreme of a range of possibilities from the casual date through living together and only then, more remotely, to marriage...