Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven poems in Nicodemus, seven are reprinted from magazines. Like many a matured poet before him, Robinson has turned to Biblical and historical themes: Nicodemus, Sisera. Gideon, the Prodigal Son, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ponce de Leon. Most of them are written in Robinson's familiar, intricately lucid blank verse. Of the lyrics, many a reader will prefer the verses on "Hector Kane." who, at 85, was still skeptical of the passage of time, died of a stroke in the midst of his skeptic's boast...
...bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was?a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what he calls "entrenched wealth." The State has less than 20 millionaires with only one vote apiece. Most of them suffered in impotent silence but Henry Hardtner, Alexandria lumber and oil man. publicly declared: "I'll never invest another cent in Louisiana while that lying crook...
...Robinson Crusoe (United Artists) bouncing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers...
...eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...understanding crammed into them by ukase, and he further assumes that students will benefit spiritually by enforced religious discipline. The idea that the sum total of a large number of people can all have that conception of and feeling toward a Delty which is religion, is patently absurd. Those familiar with the history of English-speaking peoples, from the days of Chaucer to our own, know that there has always been a large amount of definite irreligious even under an established church. There are at all times large groups of people who apparently have no need for religion, and even...