Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creating the events on and after the day of the assassination in exhaustive detail and in sometimes mawkish language, it describes Jackie Kennedy's every thought and emotion after her husband's death with such fidelity that the Kennedys-who have not read it but are familiar with its contents-feel that it contains things far too personal to print. "That's all she has left-her personal life," says a member of the family. "She wants to protect that...
...full of cures for year-end anxieties. It would almost seem that publication schedules for the monthlies had forced year-end issues to be made up too far in advance; the festive mood may have been unattainable in plans made in July. To be sure, many magazines carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall's resident psychiatrist, Theodore Isaac Rubin, offered morose counsel: "There are those who feel they should have such enormous enjoyment during a holiday that they become depressed anticipating their inevitable disappointment. Yes, having to enjoy themselves can be burden enough to kill...
Ambivalence. In her more introspective moments, Julie suffers the familiar agony of one who has risen high but cannot comprehend the forces that lifted her. She sees a psychoanalyst once a week ("My Ju? Bloody nonsense," huffs her mother. "Of course, you understand we still look on them as quacks in England"). Says Julie: "I needed some answers, and I think I'd have been a rotten mother without analysis." She is concerned about "the real me. I have an absolutely fearful temper. I always get upset when people don't get on with the job at hand...
...move came after discussion of the purposes of the language requirement this fall. The committee decided that students should become acquainted with the functions and processes of language and familiar with the literature and culture of a foreign society. And they maintain that this alternative route could be more enriching than any of the present ways of meeting Harvard's language requirement...
...First Spat to Son's Wild Oats-something involving a bottle of bourbon. Suddenly it is time for daughter to leave the nest, and Fond Father Waxes Wroth: "My daughter is marrying an idiot." Autumn leaves begin dappling the script; Preston and Martin, grey-wigged, pat the familiar bed farewell...