Word: accustomedness
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Smile, Mr. President. It really was stunning. It was supposed to happen, we saw it happening, it happened. Well, Coleridge said that anticipation is more potent than surprise. Even the overwhelming landslide came as no shock, though it may unnerve a country accustomed to contentious opinions to face evidence of...
"Among the losers in this presidential election campaign you will have to include the nosy scribblers of the press," wrote the New York Times's James Reston last Sunday. "Not since the days of H.L. Mencken have so many reporters written so much or so well about the shortcomings...
The transition from glamor and glory to gore and guts is never an easy one. It's tough for a football player accustomed to the spotlight to move into a role with less prestige and recognition.
Living up to his advance billing was not easy. "They seemed to think I could win on a donkey," he recalls. Although he did win his first race, his performance soon fell behind the pace of his publicity. There were rumors of a "Get the Kid" campaign by established jockeys...
WHEN SAMUEL BECKETT jolted the theatrical world several decades ago with Waiting for Godot, he unleashed a whole new dimension in existential dramas dealing with death. Instead of being represented by the conventional dagger and funeral scenes to which audiences had become so comfortably accustomed, death became something less frightening...