Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard fans will have to be satisfied with seeing new faces, for there is little chance that Zimmerman will vary from the familiar and successful pattern of power sweeps, mixed up with passing and seasoned with inside reverses and halfback options. Harvard won't need any new plays to topple Lafayette and will save the surprises for B.U. and later, tougher foes...
...American liberals... presided over the onset both of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities. These things may not be our fault, but... they most surely must be judged our doing." ily accepted. It is time the idea became more familiar in domestic matters. It is pleasant to hear the New Left declare that the white liberal is the true enemy because it is he who keeps the present system going by limiting its excesses, but it is more the informed conservatives who perform that function--the Robert Tafts of the nation--and at the present juncture...
...sophisticated." So the agency polled a sampling of London's young ladies. Which of twelve women would the girls most want to look like? Twiggy, who figured to be an odds-on favorite, finished a very flat tenth. In front of her were a couple of more familiar matrons: Brigitte Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor. Ahead of them came Jacqueline Kennedy. At the top by a wide margin: Britain's favorite model, Jean Shrimpton, 24, who pointed unerringly to her advantage over the likes of the Twig: "I'm not so thin...
...Sing That Proud Refrain, and the clerk, in his old-fashioned salt-and-pepper wool suit and scruffy black shoes, shuffled on down to the dance floor to join the jigging mob. The mood at Hicks headquarters was one of vindication and of cockiness, a feeling not too familiar to the people there...
Author Yanovsky, 60, a Russian emigre physician and writer of seven novels published in Western Europe (this is the first to appear in the U.S.), seems to suggest that modern technological man has lost meaningful continuity with the broader patterns of human destiny. Yanovsky puts force into this familiar proposition by his crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader...