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...more accurately termed sonatinas), and these are clearly for the purpose of highlighting the violin. The extended left hand pizzicato passage near the end of the first sonata is mind-boggling, and Shaham handles the famous passage of thirds found in the latter part of the sixth sonata with uncommon finesse...
...welfare system often creates strange distortions in social relationships that soon become traditions of their own. It is not uncommon, says Anderson, for a young man to persuade a young woman living at home with her parents to have a baby so she can get on welfare. "She lives home with Mom and Dad, and the $158 she gets every two weeks amounts to an allowance," Anderson says. "And she gives a lot of it to the boy." The welfare check binds a boy and girl together, just as a baby can. "There's no ring involved...
...very hard and demeaning process for most people," Newhouse says. "It's not uncommon that 400-500 people will apply for one job or that someone will only come across two listings in their field...
Kleinberg, for one, says her hometown ofWellesley, Mass., was not culturally diverse andinterracial dating was uncommon. And Gubbins, whocame from an all-boys school, says the opportunityto date outside his ethnic group didn't oftenarise...
...such restraint uncommon? Maybe not. "Formost, virginity-'tilmarriage was still the norm(from which deviations did occur) and notnecessarily felt as childishness to be trashed atthe first opportunity. In '44, The Pill wasunheard of, and God was still a He. Unless you hada married lady's arcane information, chastityprevented peck of troubles. (You didn't have tolike it. Many complained...