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These case studies described what services were delivered, the conditions in rural as well as urban areas, and what the Home Start teachers did during the home visits and generally provided a surrogate or vicarious experience for readers who might never have visited a Head Start or a Home Start center.
Circular vicarious cynicism.
And Chaplin makes a marvelous partner for Smith's vivaciously silly Mrs. Penniman, all shiny-eyed with vicarious pleasure and perfumed by her own cheap romanticism.
The Wall Street Journal 's "Work Week" column reports that the notion of "vicarious liability" of a company for behavior by its employees that it doesn't even know about is spreading well beyond the Supreme Court's application last spring of that concept to sexual harassment.
Part of the fun of having (or teaching) children is the vicarious reliving of one's own childhood--reading the stories aloud that you remember having read to you, renting videotapes of the movies that enchanted you or gave you nightmares, reconnecting with Ernie and Bert.