Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upstart bandit general, Wu Pei-fu is respected by many Chinese in his native Shantung Province who call themselves Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). Before he was ten years old, he could recite thousands of lines of the Chinese classics. No other Chinese military leader is so familiar with the writings of Confucius, from one of whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow...
...stunt on which Color Flight is based -making visual equivalents of sounds- is familiar to art students, who often take sketch pads to concerts and try to "draw" the music. Hollywood has lately caught on, and An Optical Poem by Artist Oskar Fischinger, a visual translation of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, was released last spring by MGM. In Len Lye's new and slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo...
...illustrations, Mrs. McKelway got one of her ex-husband's colleagues, James Thurber, who himself looks some-what like a collie, with a strain of English sheep dog. His familiar, frustrated drawings aim less at anatomical correctness than at psychological accuracy...
Twice during the year there emerges from University Hall a storm of little white envelopes containing what are euphemistically termed "study cards." To all but the most conscientious of undergraduates--who, months beforehand, have carefully planned the minute details of their curriculum--the familiar forms are distinctly painful; and the problem of deciding upon one's intellectual career is made doubly hard by the notorious vagueness of the official register...
Then on the train a man kept staring at him. Cantor tried staring right back, but it did not do any good. Finally the stranger came up to him and told him his face was familiar, out "now don't tell me, let me guess." Cantor got a little weary of this and remarked that he was the man with five daughters. "Oh, I know, Mr. Dionne," the stranger said quickly. "No," said Cantor, "Eddie Cantor--Dionne in slow motion...