Word: familiarizes
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...previous, 1966 edition. Of those, 162 survive with rejiggered words. The most significant alterations involve not war and peace but the battle of the sexes. With women destined to form half of Methodist clergy early in the 21st century, the 16-man, nine-woman hymnal committee desexed many a familiar line that was deemed to perpetuate male bias...
...Muslim Benazir Bhutto made a home for herself within the ivy confines of Harvard. As the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto--then prime minister of Pakistan--Bhutto grew up as a member of one of the country's most prominent families. But at Harvard in 1969, few were familiar with the politics of South Asia, and Bhutto's new life of anonymity offered a welcome change...
AFTER four years at Harvard, these concerns sound familiar. Critics of the College find similar faults. But I was being paid by the University to justify the system, at least enough to garner a donation and a modicum of alumni interest...
Wilson: That's certainly a significantfactor. I'm not familiar enough with the Harvardscene to say whether that's the dominant factor orone of 20 factors. The pool of women who are verywell-trained who want to be at a particularinstitution is very small. One has to make anextraordinary effort to recruit them, but everyonein the country is trying to recruit them...
Many of Baker's professional anecdotes are familiar, including the still valuable cautionary tale about the late W.H. Lawrence, the Times's White House correspondent whose friendship with John F. Kennedy resulted in gushy coverage that embarrassed the paper and eventually led to Lawrence's departure. It is impossible to avoid dated material in a reminiscence. It is also difficult to write an autobiography when one has been more an observer than a participant...