Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence of his letters, Thomas went on clutching his damp adolescent convictions until, some 20 years later, he died of drink and complications in a New York City hospital. The task of being a law unto himself entailed the remorseless exploitation of intimates, casual acquaintances and total strangers. The poet proved himself up to such demands. "I am the most unreliable friend that ever was," he confessed in a letter in 1934, and he was not kidding. He agreed to be best man at the wedding of Poet Vernon Watkins, his closest and most loyal confidant, and then failed...
...larger theme that resonates through all of Gurney's work: America, he says, has lost its sense of absolutes and faces the painful task of living with ambiguity. Striving for perfection in any endeavor signals an inability to cope with an unsettled world. This pastiche, conveying more than a casual cocktail notion, could easily be pretentious. Gurney makes...
...active a role does your master play in the house (e.g. attends most activities, social teas, house committee, available for a casual dinner, or by appointment only...
...Even a casual baseball fan knows that Aaron holds the all-time home run record, and baseball aficionados can easily tell you that Pete Rose is the all-time singles leader. But such renown has not followed the man with the most career triples. Ten points if you can name...
...This casual encounter over dinner is followed by a much more cataclysmic event the next day, when the unsuspecting Lucy ventures out of the Pensione for the first time to meet the "real Italians," foreshadowing the way Adela Quested in A Passage to India will go in search of the "real Indians." Innocently perusing the wares of a postcard vendor in the main square, Lucy stumbles onto a street fight--an Edwardian equivalent of a gang war. Fainting away at the sight of a youth expiring at her feet, she is carried off by the already enamored George, no doubt...