Word: accustomedness
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BOND CAN HEAR the shrill voice of the angry black man and sympathetically defends it, while setting his own pace, marching to a somewhat different drummer. "The language of the Panthers is often shocking to those accustomed to the ordinary expressions of political figures," Bond says, "but we might as...
So far, the magazine has justified neither the fears of its detractors nor the hopes of its founders. Its first issue carried a cover photograph of President Georges Pompidou above a banner asking CRISIS OF THE REGIME?: the story inside focused on scandals in his administration. Subsequent numbers have pushed...
The treatment-given as often as every other week-can also be frightening to the children. Very young patients are usually sedated before their transfusions. Older children who are more accustomed to the transfusions relax in overstuffed chairs in a clublike room while receiving blood. Careful monitoring is carried on...
WRITING about the new doubts concerning the traditional American work ethic, Donald Morrison found last week, can be hard work. "For one thing," he says, "the elements in this essay are so compelling and interwoven that you can summarize them no more easily than a Nabokov novel. And journalists are...
"I am not accustomed to discussing in an academic atmosphere the business of Harvard University," Dunlop said in response to Ackerman's charges. "I did not come here as dean of the Faculty. If I had known this issue would be raised. I would not have come here."