Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing you because we are interested to know if there is something new in this line with which we are not as yet familiar...
...Gondoliers" is a thing apart from the other Savoy Operas. It is true that the plot reveals the old familiar Gilbertian shreds and patches. Again you see the playwright, with the help of a Latin Little Buttercup, mix those children up, and not a creature knew it. Again, in republican Barataria, he puts down the mighty from their seat; and "ambassadors and such as they grow like asparagus in May, and dukes are three-a-penny." But the music, the whole atmosphere of the piece, is a different matter. It is flowing, Verdian, Rossinian, lightly serious, made of Latin lyricism...
...systematically deadened by an atavistic throwback to the days before printing when lectures necessarily fulfilled the functions of text-books. Even when professors are careful to present something more than standard text-book material, their courses are likely to lack vitality. There is an inevitable tendency toward that familiar process, the transfer of information from the teacher's to the student's notebook without passing through the head of either. The greatest influence on that tendency is, of course, the personality of the instructor, but too many have neglected the most effective stimulating tool available, class discussion...
...tour by a young Philadelphia millionaire who hides his identity from her, agrees not to make love to her if she will take him on as her piano player. Attired for the most part in revealing negligees, Miss Ulric at one moment tries to seduce him with the familiar Ulric twistings and oglings, at the next moment wards him off with her rasping voice. The struggle ends in a Rocky Mountain blizzard which has marooned the dancer's private...
...views this play in retrospect, it appears a little crude, the superior craftsmanship and conception of the Ulysses play have somewhat spoiled it for anyone familiar with the latter. It has some of the ridiculousness of the typical Eugene O'Neill mood, and the method of running words together making sense by their sound effect and their individual connotation rather than by their conventional sequence meaning has not been as yet made sufficiently forceful...