Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very many years ago, there was a familiar expression among those interested in sports at Harvard University that we should have a championship football team until more "prep school stars" headed Cambridge way. In one year, however, a Harvard football coach started to turn out winning teams, and the consensus of opinion now among the same following is that the football success is based on a system emphasizing the fundamentals of the game...
From this it is evident that such a play could not be a success without considerable dramatic talent and expert coaching. Surely the Cercle is very fortunate in obtaining both of these requisites in great abundance. Those who have seen the plays of the Cercle before are already familiar with the dramatic powers of the Scott brothers, but never before have they had parts which suited their style of acting so well. The tragic, old, decrepit, and insane Marquis stands out above all the other parts under the remarkable interpretation given it by War-wick Scott...
...familiar quartettes of Beethoven and Haydn received careful and intelligent performances; the former especially was rendered in perfect ensemble and spirit. Le Clair's charming sonata gave a taste of French Seventeenth Century music, which delighted the audience. In this selection the viola work of M. Artiere appeared to great advantage. Dohnanyi's quartet, romantic in its emotional content, seemed the favorite of those present, and by far was the most interesting work on the program, with its sustained chords and surging melody, freely Magyarian in technique and feeling...
...material of the plot is only too familiar; it is too laboriously and unconvincingly developed to send that creepy sensation up the collective spines of the audience. The play takes a prologue and one uninteresting act to get under way; but the last two acts have at least the virtue of holding fast one's attention. The action depends on the villainous Frank Devereaux's efforts to seduce innocent women and the resultant triangle of false suspicion, threats, and "evidence." In a struggle for his revolver, Devereaux is shot by "Lafe" Regan, whose wife is in the next room...
...Among the "Familiar Letters of William James," soon to be published by the Atlantic Monthly Company, there is a letter to Josiah Royce which shows the warm and intimate friendship which existed between these two great minds. "You are still the center of my gaze, the pole of my mental magnet," writes Mr. James. "When I write, 'tis with one eye on the page, and one on you. When I compose my Gifford lectures mentally, 'tis with the design exclusively of overthrowing your system, and ruining your peace...