Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year the familiar pattern has again been--unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched of when two ordinary teams suddenly find their particular niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...
...curtain-raiser is in the familiar Coward tradition of the London flat, the racy sophistication, and the intricate shadings of character. "Hands Across The Sea" Depends for plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree...
...chief importance is historical rather than literary. The jacket blurb to the contrary, "The Stoic" simply does not reach the stature of "The Financier" or "The Titan," its predecessors in "The Trilogy of Desire." In concluding what Parrington called "a colossal study of the American businessman," Dreiser tells those familiar with the earlier volumes little they do not already know about Frank Algernon Cowperwood, his hero. As for the reader with a casual interest in the business mind, he would do better to sample "The Financier" or "The Titan...
Manhattanites paused to stare at a familiar free show: ladies in low necks and long skirts, and men in top hats and white ties, all piling out of limousines and taxicabs at the musty, brownstone Metropolitan Opera House. It was opening night...
...wasn't meant to hold up after 17 years. In any case, it hasn't. A drawing-room piece about a middle-aged woman (Jane. Cowl) who lets her husband (Henry Daniell) marry a self-seeking young girl and then gets him back again, it follows a familiar pattern, makes use of familiar patter. It has no glaring faults; it is just so tame and predictable as to be generally dull...