Word: accustomedness
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The Faculty has displayed an unusual reticence when faced with the complexities of hiring more minority and women professors. Certainly, affirmative action is a complicated social question, but is it too difficult for a group of highly intelligent people accustomed to grappling with a variety of thorny academic and scientific...
Was it tough to get accustomed to New England's sophisticated pro system? "Naw, their offense was actually a lot easier than Harvard's."
The events at Williams virtually mirrored those which had taken place the year before at Amherst College. Before a cross-burning occurred there in 1979, Amherst was accustomed to enrolling between 25 and 30 Black students in each class (the class size at Amherst is about 385). After the incident...
A viewer finds himself watching Meryl Streep much more closely than he is accustomed to watching actresses. More seems to be going on. It is not simply that she manages to make her face an astonishingly clear reflection of her character's complexities. It is not merely that this pale...
When Ted Turner launched his Cable News Network last year, broadcasting insiders condescendingly predicted that the "Mouth of the South" had finally bitten off more than he could chew. They were convinced that American TV viewers, accustomed to half an hour of headline skimming on the networks each evening, would...