Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of New Yorkers who on summer nights go to the Mall in Central Park, to the campus of New York University or to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to listen to Edwin Franko Goldman's band, no tune is more familiar than his march, On the Mall. Well do they know its words, its lively chorus with breaks during which they whistle and sing la-la-la-la. One night last week the Goldman Band launched into On the Mall, but for once not under the baton of white-mopped Bandmaster Goldman. On the podium stood a dark, chunky...
...pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving New Yorkers. She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men & women who swarm the stage singing choruses, gesticulating vivaciously, OH-ing and AH-ing in mechanical unison. Now a tall, spare woman of 70, Maria Savage calls herself "the world's oldest chorus girl...
...great universe of stars and spiral nebulae and abysmal reaches of space, Dr. Einstein advanced in 1915 his General Theory of Relativity, which brought celestial performances into the four-dimensional theatre of space-time and made gravity an effect of space-time's curvature. Today Relativity is as familiar a guide to astronomers as a radio beam to an aviator...
...system of two identical "sheets" joined here & there by what Dr. Einstein and his associate deemed best to call "bridges." The bridges turned out to be particles. The properties of one bridge identified it as a particle with mass but no electric charge, like the hypothetical neutrino or the familiar neutron. Another bridge indicated the existence of a totally unfamiliar particle, having electric charge but no mass whatever. Particles like protons and electrons, having both mass and charge, seemed to Einstein to represent "two-bridge problems"-two points of space connecting the two space-sheets. The gentle professor was relieved...
...after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar...