Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hasn't yet had an offer from the U.S." Out of the trapping country of the Far North comes the gibe that "the symbol of Canada is the beaver, that industrious rodent whose destiny it is to furnish hats to warm better brains than his own." And a familiar aphorism holds: "We've had access to American know-how, British political wisdom and French culture. We've ended up with British know-how, French political wisdom and American culture...
...alternative among several, like a job, or travel, or loafing (which, statistics show, almost no one does--or at least not without listing it under "travel.") It keeps you away from home but lets you live in a sociable place where the friends--and the action--are familiar. Taking a course or two makes the summer respectable, regadless of whatever else keeps you in Cambridge...
...said, "Hearing about people's trips is like hearing about their operations." He called the drug "instant Zen," saying that some of the insights people get on trips are familiar to students of mysticism. But taking LSD is a dangerous way to achieve insights, he said...
...country that has made much of the benefits of contemporary science, the familiar practice of performing an autopsy to aid post-mortem investigation seemed an odd cause for crisis. Yet in one of the bitterest religious controversies in years, bearded Hebrew scholars argued over the application of ancient laws to modern medicine...
...center of the cast is James Burden Day, a Roosevelt-hating conservative Senator from the Southwest and contender for the presidential nomination. The characters, moving woodenly through a familiar plot about political chicanery, include the usual domineering millionaire publisher, the conniving businessman who keeps Senators in his pocket, the venal journalist, the young idealist, the Communist-turned-anti-Communist, and droves of beautiful, compliant women. Almost everyone is a villain, and Vidal seems to dislike his characters even more than the reader is bound to. The author recently observed that American politicians "create illusions and call them facts." Washington attempts...