Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These official recommendations seem a well-informed but familiar rehash. (Is it partly because N.A.S.S.P. officials promise to send the proposals to the White House for the attention of Jimmy Carter?) Lacking as yet a special style of their own, the kids lapse into officialese, the language in which adults in the bureaucracies back home so often speak to them...
...should all be over. A weary Rogers will hear last appeals. The next morning he will get on the telephone and start apologizing to certain loyal alumni whose children have been rejected. "It's an exciting time," he says, working up a smile. It is an expression familiar to anyone who has watched baseball managers approaching the cutoff date, politicians on the stump and admissions directors in the spring...
...event, the latest Prize Stories rely heavily on a familiar tone of disillusion. The man whose business fails and wife leaves him, the writer whose wife runs off with a Terry-Thomas Englishman, the couple who discover they enjoy sex more after their divorce, have all passed this way before...
Midnight, when we broke up, found me first out the door. I couldn't stomach the prospect of the writer and Dear Friend making their way to me with half-beatific smiles. They would have clasped my hands and nodded benevolently, gestures all too familiar, as they kindly wished me the best of luck with my writing...
...organization which addresses substantive issues, one finds politics. Persons familiar with the first Assembly can attest to this. What open political parties do is acknowledge this fact but attempt to bring politics above board. Politics in itself is not evil; politics that takes place behind closed doors most certainly...