Word: courtship
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...marriages is about 15% higher than in first ones, and matches between old lovers and friends aren't immune. A lonely man in Taos, N.M., in his late 40s jumped into a relationship with a former classmate he saw at a high school reunion in Dallas. After a whirlwind courtship, they married, and she moved in with him in Taos. But they quickly encountered difficulties, primarily over money. Within six months, the marriage was kaput. "People change," says Schwartz. "Experiences change them, and they wind up with emotional baggage and history. In the glow of a renewed love...
...peace of mind. When the world's first text message was sent in 1993, no one foresaw that in just over a decade, the laborious act of texting would become a principal means of communication between teens, or that it would transform the rules and rituals of adolescent courtship. Unlike talking on the phone, texting provides an emotional screen that hides shyness and awkwardness; it also buys time for the less acute to compose seemingly effortless repartee. "It's emboldened teenagers," says Australian Research Council fellow Gerard Goggin, who's just finished a book about the cultural impact of mobile...
...before joining President Bush at the briefing room podium, Tony Snow of Fox News got a fresh trim at a Georgetown salon - signaling the coming denouement of a very public courtship by the White House. Going on The O'Reilly Factor to talk about a job offer from the President might have meant the death penalty from this White House, but Snow has already shown he has an unusual degree of latitude...
...professors add, the elaborate courtship certainly helped. Harvard enlisted its biggest names in its campaign to bring Pinker, Ferguson, and Greenblatt to campus...
...would don short-cut, plaid skirts, get as drunk as she wants, and put herself in danger.Rape has existed forever. But it’s safe to say that there has been more “date rape” these past several decades than ever before, as formal courtship has eroded, physical intimacy has become routine, oversexed environments (and even pathological male fantasies) are merrily facilitated, and drunkenness is de jure. The boundary of consent is blurred in these instances, as even the actors/teachers of the University-funded rape prevention theatre troupe Sex Signals admitted in its mandatory-attendance...