Word: accustoming
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...what young painter in his right mind would not want to be with Rembrandt? He was so fashionable that, as one of his more classical-minded contemporaries sourly complained, "artists were forced (if they wanted to have their work accepted) to accustom themselves to his manner of painting: even though they themselves might have a far more commendable manner." Small planets in the gravitational field of an immense talent, some would eventually break out of orbit to make independent careers for themselves, but all of them -- while they were with Rembrandt -- had to work...
...tradition at CBS, exemplified in the old days by Eric Sevareid, who with handsome furrowed face gravely discoursed on matters grave. Sevareid gave Moyers two pieces of advice: "Appear regularly, and choose your own subjects." Regularity, Moyers agrees, is necessary to establish an acceptable batting average and to accustom people to your approach: "I'm not ideological. I change my mind a lot, issue to issue. Commentary is a state of mind." It is not, Moyers believes, his views that keep him off the news: "There's never been a constraint editorially on me." Instead he loses...
Life with father, as Susan recounts it, was never dull and rarely easy. As the daughter, born in 1943, and her two younger brothers grew up, they had to accustom themselves to dramatic swings in their domestic circumstances. Cheever earned his living by writing short stories for The New Yorker; it was a precarious trade, subject to editorial quirkiness in the matters of rejection or payment: "He was rich sometimes and he was poor sometimes, and both of these conditions were as dependent on his mood as they were on his net worth (which also fluctuated pretty wildly...
Judith Kates, director of the Office of Special Programs and a counsellor for transfer students, agrees. It is particularly difficult for them to accustom themselves to a "new set of academic standards" at the same time they are trying to break into already-established "systems of friendship," she says. Nevertheless, Kates emphasized that transfer students are usually older and have already handled moving away from home before...
...accustom themselves to the weightlessness of space, Young and Crippen have donned pressurized suits and entered a water tank, where they performed flight operations in an orbiter model. But perhaps the most important drills have involved the crucial moments of takeoff and landing. Unless the blast-off is precise, says Young, "you can almost leave the wings sitting on the ground. You have to thread that needle very carefully." The risk in landing is that Columbia will swoop down with no power; there would thus be no way of correcting a mistake...