Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrap their weapons in oil cloth and sit tight for two or three years while emphysema kills off all the city people in Vietnam--a new aspect of the war of attrition theory). Concertina wire surrounds every building or monument of size. The children here are as familiar with it as To mSawyer was with white picket fences...
LEONTYNE PRICE: PRIMA DONNA, VOL. 2 (RCA Victor). Scores of recital albums are released each year, one after the other, boasting unknown, known and overly known singers rendering familiar collections of pop arias. Such banality is quite beneath Leontyne Price. She adorns the measliest note with proud individuality, and in this recording caresses and enriches works ranging from Handel's Care selve through Weber's Leise, leise to Puccini's Senza mamma...
...Symphony's Colin Davis, 40, ranks as Britain's best conductor since Sir Thomas Beecham. He has a relatively wide repertory, ranging from Mozart through Berlioz to Stravinsky, and an uncanny talent for instilling the faded and familiar with fresh life. His straightforward technique combines grace with precision and gravity with rhythmic bite, and his touch in the opera pit is firm and stylish...
...most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly Commentary, fits a familiar pattern. Brainy son of Jewish European immigrants, his ambition fired by memories of a boyhood spent in the Brooklyn slums, he worked his way up from smartest kid in the class to a position of influence and prestige in New York intellectual circles...
Harvard Republicans are acting, true to the familiar stereotype and in accord with the desires of the publisher of the National Review, like gentlemen...