Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this was simply a parting shot before he turned in his badge. Yet Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order last May that allows Hoover to stay on no matter how old he is. Still, it was obvious that Hoover had been chafing for a long time in his unfamiliar role as a Justice Department underling, and his reverberating blast to the newshens was one way to ease that frustration. J. Edgar Hoover has many old foes, has made a legion of new ones recently; undoubtedly there will be vastly increased pressures on the White House from now on to boot...
...receive his (or her) contribution through the Drive. We have not taken it upon ourselves to judge charities worthy or unworthy, nor have we decided to choose for others the charities which will receive their donations. We are simply "recommending" and "suggesting" charities with which students may be unfamiliar...
...Goldwater's views. It might be argued that this ignorance is as much the fault of Goldwater as of the intellectuals. I do not think this is fair. It is necessary for a politician to assume an ideological background to which he refers, and it is inevitable that someone unfamiliar with that background will find his speeches meaningless...
...character in Albert Camus' The Plague devised a strategy for cheating death by making life seem to drag on as long as possible: he did tedious things on purpose, like listening to lectures in an unfamiliar language or lining up at the box office for theater tickets and then not buying a seat. Since French literary inbreeding is both chronic and severe, it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would devote a whole book to Camus' throwaway idea. J.M.G. Le Clezio has in effect done just that, in a first novel that has unaccountably enraptured the French...
...before, another story. What's to be bitter? It's funny. And now, the palable crux of this innovation: four "distillations" of four Harvard publications. Caustic, sophisticated, sometimes subtle, sometimes slap-stick--honestly, they're just marvelous. A pity that freshmen, whom these parodies are designed to initiate, are unfamiliar with the archetypes, here so unmercifully stripped down to their naked pretensions...