Word: familiarization
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...opposed to the "inter-civilization" fallout from the 2006 Regensberg address, the battle lines being drawn around La Sapienza were part of an ongoing internal struggle within the West. The public skirmishes occur on the now familiar terrain of bioethics, abortion, Darwin and separation of church and state. But being a lifelong man of study and reflection, Benedict also sees the source for much of the conflict in how ideas germinate and spread on university campuses. Biographers say his experience as a professor during the student upheavals of the late 1960s - where he believed a godless pursuit of personal freedom...
...never took his children back into the Garden of Eden. But in spite of the familiar narrative with which they worked, those children were able to present an entertaining, if not suspenseful, tale of their lives outside that Garden...
...said, referring to the penalties and the team’s inability to score. On a night when Harvard was perhaps the better team—the Crimson’s 40 shots were a season high and 16 more than St. Lawrence managed—it was mistakes familiar to the Harvard players and coaching staff that prevented them from picking up the win. —Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...course. But some of these sins are hardly worth a serious confession. As Bruce Babbitt, an engaging and now almost-forgotten Democratic candidate, pointed out half a generation ago, the U.S. is a big country - it takes time for all but the best-known politicians to make themselves familiar enough with folks to win their vote. And in politics, time means money - which you have to raise one way or another. The army of reporters who follow the campaign may have their moments of self-importance, but they act as a noisy Greek chorus on politics, ensuring (especially in these...
...when her eyes welled with tears missed the fact that to many of us, she looked more human and less calculating than the candidate we'd seen up until then. On election night, she commanded the stage. We saw her husband for only a brief embrace, and the familiar faces from the previous administration that had flanked her in Iowa were absent...