Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous teachers as well as the famous buildings, moreover, are accorded the honour of illustrations, which are quite prolific in the book. The buildings qualify because of age, the men because their names, even to present day ears, ring very familar, though most are gone. The number of these familiar names is a partial justification of the book itself, a reminders that, although then as always a small puddle, New England served as the habitat of many large frogs. Hazing, dining, studying, and athletics, together with instances of curious customs from the Berkshire colleges as well as from New Haven...
Tales of Rigo. Apparently, the astral body of Drift, a play that lived a short life last season at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is up and doing. It now ambles on the stage of the Lyric in a stagnant incarnation, punctuated at grateful intervals by tolerable, vaguely familiar songs. The plot concerns one Rigo, polychromatic gypsy musician, onetime darling of society, now embittered enemy. His melodious followers ramble the forests in simple glee, vocalizing over three stumps, serenading the birds, celebrating Zita, Rigo's elfin granddaughter. She falls in love with a society man. There is mystery about Zita...
...Scribner's Magadine Miss Frances Warfield writes bitterly on the results of education as it is practised in the large women's colleges of the East. She names no names, but by the frequent references to Boston one gathers that it is a college with which all Bostonians are familiar; a secluded place of wooded hills above a lake, which, to the student at a neighboring men's college, at least, does not ordinarily call up ideas of such cruel satire...
...wears no special uniform but is visibly "a confident citizen of two worlds." He is about 50, ordained only after having shown special qualifications for the spiritual life. His training has consisted in study of Christ's life and two or three years in the Orient to become familiar with mysticism at its source. He comes not to do, or say anything, primarily. He comes "to BE something...
Then things began to go badly for him. Dagny Kielland was unable to find in Nagel any of the well rubbed familiar surfaces, common to all men, by which people are accustomed to identify, if not to understand, other people. He remained a mystery to her. Nagel realized that it was impossible for her to penetrate the dark secrets of his mind. With the teeth of despair already in his heart, he began to see madness waddling toward him like an enormous lizard. "Then he made for the harbor at a run, the back of his waistcoat showing white...