Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarrell's sudden death hasn't been as anonymous, and the Committee of memorialists has contrived to write something far more elaborate than the "anything will do" he asked for as an epitaph. Buried in this courteous and often adoring book are kernels of the familiar sad story of the American artist that poured out in Jarrell's poems. He was recovering or perhaps failing to recover from a nervous breakdown that October in North Carolina. "When I last saw him, not long before his death," Arendt writes, "the laughter was almost gone and he was ready to admit defeat...
...length play. On Broadway for the first time, it is as highly individualistic, if not as technically poised, as his later works. The playwright cuts through the conventions of accepted stage behavior and the rules of the well-made play to expose the cruel and the comic, the frighteningly familiar and the terrifyingly unknown in each man's existence...
...project that promised "to use television as it has never been used before," the 21-hour program seemed rather familiar. Correspondents skipped breathlessly across the mayoralty-campaign battlegrounds of Gary, Cleveland and Boston, concentrating on the racist atmosphere. The commercial networks had been there before, and about as thoroughly. A raw one-act satire about racial attitudes in the south-Day of Absence, by Negro Dramatist Douglas Turner Ward-was allowed to run from here to eternity: 60 minutes...
Michigan law puts tight controls around the expansion of banks. There is an absolute ban on the bank holding companies that are familiar throughout the rest of the country; no bank can open a branch farther than 25 miles from its home office, or in a town where another bank is already established. The rules are so strict that the recent acquisitions made by a crew of young businessmen known as "the Parsons Group" seem a blatant invitation to the bank examiners. In the past three years, Donald H. Parsons, 37, and his 15 associates, have bought control of seven...
...summon up his French accent and repeat the title aloud several times will be quick to grasp the fact that this slim and learned volume is nothing more than Mother Goose rhymes. The odd effect is created by arranging French words to form homonymic approximations of the familiar English rhymes; the literal translation is always something wildly nonsensical. Thus "Jack and Jill...