Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is always an officer--either on foot or in the force's familiar blue station wagon-ready to respond to the flashing red emergency lights scattered around the University. The blinking might signify that a locked-out student needs to get into his rooms, or that there is a fire in Adams House. But since serious disturbances are unusual, the duties of the Yard cops in addition to patrol, are limited to traffic matters (center, right...
Today in the U.S. lacrosse is a familiar sport from Florida to New England and west to the campus of Ohio State. It is only natural that it is a popular offseason diversion for football players who like to keep in shape. At Maryland, Muscleman Frank Tamburello, one of the most promising quarterbacks in collegiate football, is an enthusiastic lacrosse player. And since Navy and Maryland have not met on the football field since 1952, Tamburello and his teammates have an added incentive to scuttle the Middies in lacrosse...
...mates on the Today show as having dug his own trench out in Yucca Flat. Meanwhile, the desperate networks kept rerunning film of the target area until the tall, thin pole with the bulge at the top that was the housing for the bomb was as naggingly familiar as a Lucky Strike commercial...
...baseball diamond, an old familiar story was repeated to an old familiar tune, as the Crime romped home, 23 to 2, behind the heady pitching of Cliff (The Whip) Thompson...
...acting is equal to the rigorous demands of Weill's music. Her cruelty and cynicism give added dimension to numbers like "The Ballad of Survival" and "The Ballad of Dependency." Bronia Sielewicz, as the prostitute Jenny, will make even the most sentimental viewer forgive her for replacing the familiar German accent of Lotte Lenya. "The Pirate Jenny" and "The Solomon Song" are two of the best examples of Weill and Brecht's art and Miss Sielewicz gives them at least their due. Sara-Jane Smith plays Polly Peachum with a fine veneer of innocence and propriety barely covering Polly...