Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish Mother became a big seller, bought by a lot of readers who were neither Jewish nor mothers. Still, beyond the simple shoulder-shrugging caricatures and the throwaway Yiddish, the Jewish experience is flavored with some sour salt. "Jewish humor is supposed to be warm and familiar," says Movie Critic Pauline Kael, "but there's a lot of hostility...
Thailand's infant but active guerrilla war falls into the familiar pattern of Communist subversion in Southeast Asia, and has disturbing similarities to the beginning of the war in Viet Nam. Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi, in fact, pointedly predicted last year that the struggle in Thailand would soon start. For their launching spot, the Communists picked a remote region of Thailand that is not only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with...
Slowly, solemnly Artur Rubinstein unfurled his arms and began to play the familiar melody. His nobly sloping brow tilted heavenward, his wispy white hair swirled about his dome like a wreath of cumulo-cirrus, his milky blue eyes shuttered in repose. Then, suddenly, everything went haywire. His left hand skittered out of control, his right did nip-ups. Harmonies collided, the tempo skidded and stumbled. Rubinstein did not bat an eye. His family and friends, huddled around the Steinway in a Manhattan hotel room, laughed heartily...
...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...
...usual historical novel is notoriously long on panoply and pomp. In this spare but sturdy tale, young (22) First-Novelist Cecelia Holland cuts away the familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...