Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sections on current events are an obvious ploy, but students do not demand anything that bald. I once had a very successful section in which I discussed a research idea that the professor and I had developed in casual conversation earlier that day. Anything which breathes life into the litany of contructs and generalizations is going to be well appreciated, whether it sheds light on the process of real life--or just academic life. The students will follow the lectures with renewed enthusiasm, and the professor will be very grateful for a class that stops sleeping...
...President has three basic wardrobes: cowboy, country club casual and what is sometimes called "California executive." Though he raised a few traditionalist eyebrows by wearing a restrained-even distinguished-blue-and-red plaid sports jacket on a recent trip to Washington, his generally tweedy coats and dark slacks look smart and comfortable. His business suits, in grays, browns and blues, are skillfully tailored but have a faintly old-fashioned look. One reason is that his broad shoulders and erect posture make his jackets look overly padded...
...read them, but sighs: "If I think it's good, I have no right not to offer it to the reader." Other readers, turning page after page, can feel like trapped eavesdroppers to a long and abstruse private conversation. It is no longer a browsing magazine for the casual reader. Those long pieces demand a reader's application, and he is sometimes rewarded, as in a two-part series by Janet Malcolm about a psychoanalyst, "Aaron Green (as I shall call him)," that did not require a Ph.D. to keep up with...
...dark suit, the pinstriped shirt, the wrinkled forehead and the long, straggly locks disguise an animated man, a man constantly editing his sentences, correcting every exaggeration. He displays casual modesty, underplaying the various events in his life and the power he wields as one of America's most respected liberal journalists. He would rather talk about the issues that concern our nation and the themes he has addressed for ten years as a columnist...
Anthony Lewis could probably take over, were he ever asked. His rather casual undergraduate years at Harvard did not prompt him to go on to law school, but he seems a natural for public interest law. The late nights handsetting Crimson headlines and the 4 a.m. discussions at the Hay-Bickford cafeteria on Mass. Ave paved the way for a different profession--a career which twice a week has a column landing on the front porches of American homes, an unmuffled voice of liberalism in an increasingly conservative...