Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasant jaunts were going on, the U.S. was investigating Whitehead's tax status. Caudle said he had just a "faint recollection" that he might have telephoned Oliphant about removing a $40,000 tax lien the U.S. had against Whitehead's plant. That would have been "the most normal thing" to do, he said, since he talked with Mr. Oliphant almost every day. Day after his faintly recollected telephone call on the Whitehead case, the lien was lifted...
...these only the normal manifestations of a vigorous people coming once more into their own? Japan's approaching independence portends an all-important shift in the balance of power in Asia...
From the canteen we went to the last blood pressure and medical history department. The nurse in charge there was harried. "Very busy day," she said, "must have had over 400--blood pressure normal--every time I've started to do anything--let me prick your finger to see if you've got enough iron--I've had interruptions--been sick in the past month?--well the day is nearly over. Go drink some water and sit down in that line...
This theme is simply that "we all lose our innocence, one way or another; it's the normal thing." The story tells of a man, from the time he was 13 who shot and, he thought, killed another man, until he is 33 and finds his "victim" still alive...
...years between, he feels his life was shaped by his first crime, which affirmed, for him, a boyhood suspicion that he was different from other people. So he consciously enforces "normality" on himself, makes himself act like the people around him, advocates order and authority; joins the Fascist Party as a secret policeman, and marries a "normal" girl he does not love. When he finds alive the man he thought he had shot, he realizes that the act had nothing to do with shaping his life. The book concludes that man is snared in his own destiny...