Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Huxley's book, reflecting a growing, uneasy sense of the inadequacy of a purely rationalistic approach to God, included excerpts from many unfamiliar European mystics and religious thinkers (Francis of Sales, St. Teresa, Eckhart, Boehme), even more unfamiliar Asiatics (Jalaluddin Rumi, Visvanatha, Chuang...
...gave shrewd emphasis to a point few military men could consider without sympathy: he had arrived in the Philippines only nine days before the U.S. landings on Leyte, had been unfamiliar with the country, the people and even his own officers; thereafter he had been involved in the nerve-racking confusion of losing battles. "I was under constant attack by superior American forces," he said...
With the exception of Frisco, Shady Lady is an unfamiliar concoction of several very familiar ingredients. If Ginny, who sings in the nightclub part of Alan Curtis' gambling joint, can get her lovable old crook of an uncle (Charles Coburn) to go straight, then Assistant District Attorney Paige (whom she likes a lot) may not discover her uncle's pungent past-and maybe she and Paige can get married. While these major threads, and innumerable minor threads, are being tangled and untangled, Ginny gives out tooth-somely with three new songs-one of which, In Love with Love...
...captivity, Chungking seemed full of wonders. Like other rescued prisoners, the General was too tense at first to relax. He and the group who arrived with him ate hungrily but shyly, clumsy with knives & forks after years of using only mess-kit spoons. They looked at magazines, full of unfamiliar expressions like G.I. and A.P.O., listened to references to battles, planes and Army outfits about which they knew nothing...
...lobby was crowded, too, with wives and friends of new Labor M.P.s. Many came straight from the bleak mining towns of the north. They gazed in awe at the unfamiliar pageantry. Completely unawed was Violet Attlee, who is still doing her own housework in her spick-&-span Stanmore villa, and has not yet moved into No. 10 Downing Street...