Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bowles character jots down a "recipe for dissolving the impression of hideousness made by a thing: Fix the attention upon the given object or situation so that the various elements, all familiar, will regroup themselves. Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern." Bowles may believe this, but his stories regularly do the reverse. They fix the attention on beauty and then suggest the frightfulness within. Pages from Cold Point, Bowles' best, eeriest tale, paints an idyllic Jamaican setting. But the narrator soon learns that his 16-year-old son is homosexual and has been cruising in dangerous native...
...Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington bureau to cover what Correspondent Brew calls "the most underreported branch of Government - the Judiciary." Says former Defendant Thomas of his new assignment: "The subject is not exactly unfamiliar...
Good as he is at time warps, the playwright is unfamiliar with straight razors. That explains the patches of tissue on Reeve's puss in the picture...
...various films are so firmly imprinted on our minds that it is almost impossible not to filter the events and images of the book through the more familiar ones of the films. We are apt to distort the novel to fit a familiar mold, miss what is fresh or unfamiliar...
...life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent and a distinguished jurist who wore his courtroom robes around the house. The case history is not unfamiliar: son seeks the attention of the remote, puritanical father by challenging his values; one thing leads to another; guilt accrues; activities detrimental to health and welfare are pursued; the harmful consequences become a form of self-punishment...