Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amherst abandoned its familiar long-passing game, depending on the dribbling and shooting of speedy wings Roger Pennington and Charlie Clark for most of its offense. Pennington gave the Lord Jeffs their lone goal with 7:50 gone in the first period, tallying on a rebound...
Late that afternoon Khrushchev & Co. flew back into Washington worn and rumpled. Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy led the proper but perfunctory greeting party. Crowds waved amiably-this time at a familiar figure-as K.'s limousine swept him back to Blair House. Within an hour he was showered and dressed for a reception at the Soviet embassy, then headed off to a private dinner with two dozen businessmen to sound the old brassy warning that U.S. willingness to disarm and trade would prove whether the U.S. wanted war or peace...
...Pattern. With discontent so widespread, many a community has set up comprehensive schools that lump grammar, technical and secondary modern schools under one roof with as many as 1,000 students. The new schools (about 90 so far) remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school. They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary...
Thurs., Sept. 24 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket...
Torn between conflicting philosophies, the student may turn away from Judaism completely; or he may come back to it with new intellectual tools, seeking to mold a familiar image. "Some people think that Judaism becomes more respectable when it wears the cloak of popular philosophies," Rabbi Gold said. "It is quite likely that students prefer to discuss Jewish questions on grounds more familiar to them: how does religion relate to things taught them at the University? How does it fit in with different philosophies?" Religion is discussed from the reference frame of their new value system. This is inimical...