Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar Mafia lore that has become commonplace knowledge through movies and fiction is essentially true. All the made men are bound by a loyalty oath of blood and fire. They are divided into regimes, or squads, under the command of caporegimes, or lieutenants, who in turn take their orders from the clan's dons. Years ago, the don was both a prince of crime and social arbiter among Italians in his territory. But the breakup of the old Italian neighborhoods has stripped away his social functions?and any romanticism that might have surrounded him. Today he is no more than...
Arms cited better support from husband and family, more room in which to move around, a far more familiar and intimate setting, better care, more self-confidence for the woman and less fear of the childbirth as reasons for choosing home childbirth...
...kept that promise you made to your tearful waving-goodbye mother during that light-years-ago Freshman Week and you still tender your devotions regularly at Memorial Church on Sundays. If so, you will be familiar with the melodious handiwork of Lenora McCroskey, Assistant Organist and Choir Master there. She (not the cat's mother but McCroskey) will give a harpsichord recital in that be-steepled Greek temple opposite Widener that you might be going to 8:45 morning prayers at. Admission is free and the show sould be well worth listening...
...little nostalgic, to be a little self-serving for once. I remember the first break I got here this fall. I was just another junior--a regular sort, interested mostly in tutorial papers and chasing mopeds. And then one day, a little magazine that I'm sure you're familiar with hit the newsstands for the first time. The magazine was Padan Aram, and the rest is history. Alright, so being travel editor for a poetry magazine doesn't sound like the most exciting thing in the world, but you'd be surprised who I got to meet...
...logrolling opposition of an extraordinarily broad array of special-interest groups. So they are planning a selling campaign going well beyond the usual. As one part, efforts are already under way to obtain bookings for Administration officials-as yet unannounced-to explain the program, not only on the familiar interview shows such as Face the Nation, Meet the Press and Issues and Answers, but on the popular TV talk shows emceed by Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and Dinah Shore...