Word: familiarized
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...those white earbuds and listen for a second. Before the iPod became ubiquitous - way, way before - there was the Walkman. The portable cassette players, first introduced 30 years ago this week, sold a cumulative 200 million units, rocked the recording industry and fundamentally changed how people experienced music. Sound familiar? (See TIME's list of the most influential gadgets and gizmos...
...airport tarmac. It was on the plane, catered by stewardesses who offered wine with my meal in a tone of calm civility clearly distinguishable from the intimately friendly manners I had encountered before boarding at Logan. As we swooped over streets that represent personal landmarks and brim with familiar memories, the pilot apologized profusely for the offending view of Arsenal stadium. Naturally, given Arsenal football team’s recent defeat by Chelsea rival, I presumed these were the words of a gloating Chelsea fan. Despite supporting an altogether different team—Tottenham—I nonetheless empathized with...
There is such security in familiar cultural references - those passing comments that so naturally pepper conversations, but that I only began to notice in the foreign context of Harvard, where casual allusions are strange and alien. In London, stripped of my “English” accent, I escape the differences cultivated by national culture, and revolve in a landscape that—compared to eternally confusing America—seems to reflect my every perception...
...publishing friends our own age. The lack of new blood at BEA was disappointing—not because adults can’t get with the times, but because the older generation feels a need to reconcile these new times with the old, the safe, and the familiar...
Among the Bok Center's best-known programs are its teaching conferences for junior faculty members and TFs held in August and September. Michael Frazer, an assistant professor who arrived in the government department in 2007, called the programs "incredibly helpful" and said they allowed participants to become familiar with each other and with teaching at the University...