Word: accustomedness
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That is undoubtedly part of it. "The price of eternal vigilance," says Marshall McLuhan, "is indifference." In the same way, the cost of constant excitement, of a persistent and violent rearrangement of one's sense of order, results in surfeit. The mind is overcome by a kind of compassion...
The only way, then, is for us all to act together. We are accustomed to opening ourselves up to one another, and certainly not to strangers. A communal ethos is a rare thing in any city or university, especially in America.
To those who are accustomed to watching Bill Murphy dive at the LAB, last night's performances, particularly in the one-meter, were a letdown. Springfield's Fred Laing barely beat Dick Eisenberg in the one-meter, and there was almost a bad mishap when the Chiefs' Mark Donnelly failed...
None of these conditions are likely to be very popular in Japan. Accustomed to reliance on the U.S. for protection, Japan now spends less than 1% of its gross national product on defense. Japanese are understandably reluctant to increase their country's military budget or to assume a larger...
But as I stood there singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme with visions of Annette dancing through my head, I thought of Tricia Nixon, wherever she was sitting. Was she, too, singing Mickey Mouse or was losing proving to be a bad experience for her? Perhaps she was accustomed to...