Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...COSMOPOLITAN.To anyone who has read Dickens the opening article of the Cosmopolitan for May cannot fail to be full of interest. It is written by Harger Ragan and is entitled "In the Footsteps of Dickens." The author aided by many excellent pictures describes some of the spots made familiar in Dickens novels, such as the "Old Curiosity Shop" and Mr. Dombey's House. Camille Flammarion continues "Omega. The Last Days of the World." This installment is much like the last, interesting and fanciful, yet with nothing absolutely impossible. A very interesting article is "American Society in Paris" by Mary Ford...
Boylston Hall was filled to overflowing last evening by an audience composed wholly of students. For an hour Professor Drummond held their closest attention; his words were simple, even informal, the thoughts to which he gave expression were familiar, and if spoken by an ordinary man would have seemed trite and commonplace. Yet the strong intellectualism, the broad tolerance, the ready wit, and above all, the sincerity, earnestness, straightforwardness and manliness of the speaker gave to his words a penetrating significance that makes his address one of the most powerful, as it was one of the most remarkable, to which...
...training of the English crews presents many remarkable differences to one who is familiar with rowing in American Universities. In the first place, in England no such things as rowing tanks and very few rowing machines are used. It is an exceptional thing for the Thames to be frozen at Oxford and the crews always begin their practice on the river early in January if not before. As each of the twenty colleges which make up Oxford University has at least one crew, it is no infrequent sight to see twenty five eight-oared crews on the river...
After Mrs. Nikisch had sung a group of songs the orchestra played Handel's familiar "Largo." The air is taken up by the French horns with harp accompaniment. Then the solo violin takes the air and finally all the violins end with a great fortissimo passage. Though the Largo is familiar, the audience became unusually enthusiastic, and forced Mr. Nikisch to repeat part...
...last number was Wagner's Overture "The Flying Dutchman." This was the first work in which the composer attempted to characterize persons by fixed musical phrases. The familiar story of the poor mariner who was doomed to wander over the ocean in endless misery is well illustrated by the progress of the Overture. The conflicts in his mind as well as the conflicts in the elements about him are pictured very vividly by the variety of themes and the manner in which they are worked out. The Overture is a fine piece of music picturing...