Word: causalism
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...life on the fashion scene becomes gay and giddy to match the season. It's spring when fashion more or less let's you do what you want, and you can dress the role of the spritely gamine, or the innocent and demure little girl, or have the causal windblown air of the little boy. All that determines the choice is your mood...
...arrived at Hanover. Boys from the different organizations came over to meet us. Dartmouth is causal but friendly, they said. Several times...
...went on appointed rounds, each with a Dartmouth guide, causal but friendly, in tow. At the Green Key president's room our guide left us, muttering that Dartmouth kept one awfully busy, and that he had to rush off to there big meeting before the Big Bonfire...
...traits which have been shown to be significantly higher in the delinquent group. This obviously does not mean that each boy who possesses one or several of these traits must become delinquent, but as the Gluecks put "it becomes highly probable that we are dealing with some sort of causal connection between the factors and the behavior, rather than with casual or accidental coincidence between them...
These than are roughly the causes of delinquency, or as the Gluecks put it, "if we take into account the dynamic interplay of the differentiate factors from all these various levels and channels of influence, a rough causal explanation takes shape...