Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Barker himself is a very live and interesting man. He has been connected with the theatre since he was 14 years old, and is thoroughly familiar with this type of play. He is a close friend of Professor Gilbert Murray, who translated the plays, and has been associated with him in producing them at the Court Theatre in London. His chief aim is to produce the plays just as Euripides would have done...
...Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The program is in some respects a departure from those of previous years, in that it includes neither a composition by a University student nor one entirely new to American audiences. However, Borodin's First Symphony, is at least not very familiar in this vicinity, having been played only twice in Boston...
...class of the mediocre belong the three bits of verse, "The Jap Doll," "Lamentation," and "The Caravan." The first transposes the "Madame Butterfly Motif" into the familiar key of Kipling's dialesticisms. The second is a highly colored trifle as frail as the "jewelled veil gossamer" that its writer mentions. The last is purposeless but inoffensive. Like so much modern verse, all of these compositions lack the bone and fibre of solid thought and poetic necessity. They leave the impression that their authors sat down and cried, "Lo, I must produce a poem," and then cudgelled their brains...
Those of us who are familiar with the Oxford University Union and have seen the every-day cordial interchanges and friendly greetings between members of the faculty (from Presidents to Dons) and students of every nation and station, cannot help contrasting all that with the conditions extant at out Harvard Union --to say nothing of the thronged assemblies at the Forums which are next to the social centre idea, a main feature of the Oxford Union...
...Putnam's dramatic sketch is more ambitious--he attempts "atmosphere," in a very familiar medium. The resulting impression of music and moonlight is delicate and pleasing, though a trifle thin...