Word: cavalierism
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"People are becoming as cavalier about junk fax mail as they are about junk mail at home," says Gillis. "How many letters do you throw away?"
The Threepenny Opera originated as a leftist diatribe, and is even more of one in John Dexter's snarly, airless staging. Michael Feingold's translation claims to reflect more authentically the 1928 Berlin debut than the Marc Blitzstein version popularized in the '50s. It is surely less effective. For example...
At Harvard, students have always had a cavalier attitude toward restrictions on alcohol.
That scene illustrates a more fundamental problem. Don Giovanni is at least partly a drama of class distinctions. That is why, for example, the cavalier can simply walk in on the wedding of the peasant Masetto and walk off with his bride Zerlina. When Don Giovanni is converted into an...
Finally, raise the excise tax on gasoline. A 25 cents-per-gal. hike would raise about $25 billion a year -- but would still price our gasoline at well under half what it costs throughout Europe and Japan. When the U.S. was a net oil exporter and the world's dominant...