Word: normalization
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Given the unprecedented military and media operation needed to create this simulacrum of normality, the prince's assessment was just about right. The Windsors don't do normal. Their function is symbolic; the most popular and effective member of the family, the Queen, is remote, dare one say regal, despite her relentless diary of public engagements. It was Harry's mother Diana, a royal-by-marriage, who engaged with ordinary people in emotionally intelligent ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real...
...reputation as a playboy prince. The same fate threatened Harry until his star turn in the theater of war recast him as a hero and champion recruiter for Britain's armed forces. Just a few nights on the tiles could dent his new-minted image. It would be normal behavior for any young soldier on R&R, but normality isn't and can never be the province of princes...
...hearth of Diana Eck and Dorothy Austin, Harvard’s first openly gay House masters, might seem ironic.Inside the residence, Eck meanders past the big bay windows lining her living room as she tells me how she and her wife “are really just normal people who lead normal lives.” She smiles as she lifts a picture of the two of them on their wedding day, recounting the fanfare that accompanied her Memorial Church ceremony a few years ago.For many, the Lowell House masters are just one of a string of signs marking...
...Smith said yesterday that the search’s duration was simply the result of normal deliberation and that Hammonds, who he said was the first person he had asked to take the deanship, was quick to accept the position...
...first time you point your gun at a child, you immediately lower the gun and think, ‘What the hell is going on?’ The second time you just lower your gun. The third, seventh, and 17th time it happens, it becomes normal,” he says. “This is how things that you thought were absurd become normal.”The exhibit, which opened last Saturday at Harvard Hillel and is sponsored and hosted by the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA), portrays the daily life of Israeli soldiers who served...