Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last third of the book, Lasing describes the experiences which trans-familiar to the religious mystic and to some psychotics. They are associated with the source of life, eternity, death-in-life, timelessness, knowledge of the void, and the divine founts of religion and ecstasy...
...hairdresser more than 20 years younger. In modern France as well as elsewhere, older women and younger men tend to have affairs rather than marry. For one thing, the typical older woman is a divorcee and would forfeit alimony by remarriage. Numerous sages have extolled such liaisons on the familiar ground that older women provide an invaluable education, and are more interesting both intellectually and sexually than any ingenue or debutante. "Boys and girls should leave each other alone," declares Author Stephen Vizinczey (In Praise of Older Women). "Trying to make love with someone who is as unskilled...
...first full week of the spring semester on many campuses, and students responded to the symbolic change of seasons by provoking a spate of violent clashes with authorities. Almost everywhere, the "confrontations," as the students like to call them, were precipitated by the now familiar demands of black students and their white sympathizers. They were asking for segregated student facilities, more courses in black culture, more black students and teachers, and a greater voice in the hiring and firing of faculty. Even where efforts are being made to meet their demands, they are still unsatisfied. In some cases, uncompromising campus...
...Spielvogel's couch, Portnoy becomes the first of the lie-down comics. Raised in Newark and now holding the post of Assistant Human Opportunities Commissioner in New York City, he renders his past absurd in an attempt to lessen its painful grip on him. He keens the familiar tale of the strongwilled, overattentive mother and the castrated father. He tells how his mother fondled him during toilet training, how she eroticized the insides of his ears while removing the wax, and how she forced him to eat at knife point. Portnoy is continuingly being floored by the fact that...
...named Danby in whose house Bruno is dying. Danby begins by sharing his bed with Adelaide the maid, then flirts with his brother-in-law's wife and finally consorts with an ex-nun named Lisa. She and a forbearing homosexual nurse called Nigel are the enigmatic characters, familiar in Murdoch fiction, who stir the emotional chemistry of the others into molecular groupings and regroupings...