Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings of a pirate...
...referring to the familiar "For God, for Country and for Yale" which must be sung: "For God, for Ca-a-unt-ry and for Yale"--which is loathsome but which can be made very unannoying and definite not by changing the words at all but by repeating two of them, thus: "For God for God, for Country and for Yale." Furthermore, this not only adds smoothness and decision but puts the greatest emphasis where emphasis is lacking. In our undergraduate course in English at Yale, we were told that the order For God, For Country and for Yale...
Instead of being a mere attempt to cover a vast and familiar ground more rapidly than is predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...
...author has limited his study of Hardy's work. His selection merits praise; and the book is of superlative profit to the reader who is familiar with Hardy's writings. The volume contains numerous quotations from the novels and poems discussed. This device is happy, for Hardy stands forth as his own witness, admirably aided by the pertinent comments and keen criticism of Mr. Braybrooke, who reveals a deep sympathy and understanding...