Word: accustomedness
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It is not those years of study but the nature of the revelation he offers that has run Castaneda afoul of rationalists. To join another man's consensus of reality, one's own must go, and since nobody can easily abandon his own accustomed description it must be forcibly broken...
Professors of English are not by nature practical men. They are not accustomed to thinking of work and pleasure as mutually exclusive. They are also self-indulgent. They would not dream of saving up Shakespeare for a rainy day. They are also irrational. They do not readily grasp the logic...
The strength of this motive is amply testified for by the spectacular rise of the U.S. based multi-national corporations in the post-World War II economic era. Most of this new activity has been concentrated in Europe, thus far, for the simple reason that only in Europe did an...
California's freewheeling real estate developers, even more than their colleagues to the east, have long been accustomed to building just about anything that would turn a profit. When their plans are good-at the vacation community of Sea Ranch, for example, or the "new town" of Valencia-they...
From the swank high-rise apartments of Malabar Hill to the new skyscrapers at Narriman Point, Bombay exudes money, power and privilege. But the city's back streets tell another story. They have become home to thousands of people seeking refuge from the scorching sun, who have poured into...