Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dials of cheap Waterbury watches his portrait followed that of Mickey Mouse. By last week, it was clear that with Shirley Temple, Father Coughlin, the Dionne Quintuplets and Mrs. Roosevelt, Jerome Herman Dean was definitely one of that small company of super-celebrities whose names, faces and occupations are familiar to every literate U. S. citizen and whose antics, gracious or absurd, become the legend of their time...
Another pitfall of the plan lies in the fact that several courses can be taken only if a student has satisfied requirements by passing certain College Boards. Confusion on this point can be avoided only if these honor students are assigned Advisors thoroughly familiar with Language Requirements, the courses offered by various departments, and whose special task it is to see to their charges' welfare throughout their first year--a function which the average Advisor is incapable of filling...
...more or less obscure public men, or men prominent only in their own profession, Chamberlain has included pages of genealogy which are interesting only to members of the family and has magnified the virtues of his subject without placing his faults in the proper strong light. He presents the familiar case of an artist too close to his work to gain perspective...
Michoacan, on the Pacific Ocean, is one of the least known of Mexico's 28 states. Yet there is hardly a Mexican schoolboy who is not familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe...
...William A. Clark prize went to Eugene Speicher for his famed portrait of a blacksmith, Red Moore, a familiar headliner of the Whitney Museum show of four months ago (TIME, Dec. 10). Other widely known pictures: Guy Pène du Bois' Sunburned Nude; William J. Glackens' Soda Fountain (TIME, March 11); John Steuart Curry's Line Storm (TIME, Dec. 24); Bernard Karfiol's Seated Nude. More of a novelty was a Renoiresque Girl at the Piano by Frederick Frieseke which won the $1,500 Clark second prize...