Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although certain liberties have been taken with the original score and libretto, Balfe's opera has lost nothing by the addition of Mr. Hardy's slightly anachronous remarks, and Mr. Laurel's somnambulistic expressions. The production is beautifully mounted throughout and all the familiar music is there, although the audience is somewhat diverted during the song "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halis" by Hardy's face, which shines like an electric light bulb and Laurel's phlegmatic consumption of three breakfasts...
...Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin is one of the few Latins who knows England and the English thoroughly. More often than any other French statesman he slips across the Channel to shoot grouse in Scotland or ride to hounds with English country squires. M. Flandin knows Mr. Baldwin. He is familiar with the reluctance of the Prime Minister to use the telephone, his refusal to read newspapers on Sunday and his instinctive habit of not feeling strictly bound by promises which British statesmen may make outside the United Kingdom (TIME, Dec. 30). If the Council of the League of Nations should...
...pleasantly, a certain knack is involved in the accretion of consistently high grades. This includes judicious selection of courses in familiar fields, a craftily genial promotion of favorable relations with instructors, and a liberal amount of genius as Carlyle defined it,--"an infinite capacity for taking pains." If by adopting a less narrow-minded attitude towards his work, or taking a difficult course not in his field because he is interested in it, a man drops a group in his rating, that should be cause to bestow or continue a scholarship, rather than to refuse or rescind...
...house representative of the college as a whole, and thereby to establish a standard of social equality among the houses. The obvious result of this hit-or-miss plan has been to place a great many men in a thoroughly uncongenial, and often intolerable atmosphere. Friendships made in the familiar Yard surroundings are rudely interrupted and can rarely be satisfaciorily picked up again, while the field for new friendships, is barren compared to the opportunities of the Freshman year. As a consequence, men who are invited to join clubs tend to pick up their belongings...
...gone beyond high school, yet they will stop at nothing to gain control of our whole educational system. Yesterday one of the committee members openly threatened Harvard and other universities with taxation. I thank God that we have a man on our faculty like James A. McLaughlin, who is familiar enough with Boston to expose this ruthless opposition. Exposure is what it needs. Once its real purpose is apparent, all our good little people will be glad to join the fight. Norman Hunt...