Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said he hopes to choose a new dean by early next fall. "I always begin with the feeling that someone within the school has a distinct advantage because he's familiar with the school and a known entity," Bok said. Some members of the department speculated that Gerald M. McCue, associate dean of the GSD, might...
...consider to be a blatantly immoral regime. Second, we feel not only that this refusal to take a more active stand is despicable, but also that it represents tacit support of the present policies of these firms, if not of apartheid. There is little need to present the innumerable familiar yet still cogent arguments against the University's present policies, since this has been done quite thoroughly and articurately elsewhere, especially by several faculty members...
Kaufman's most familiar incarnation is also his most comforting, a benign extension of Foreign Man tailored for situation comedy and appearing weekly, under the name Latka Gravas, on ABC's smash sitcom Taxi. But Latka fans who sought out Kaufman at his frequent unscheduled appearances at comedy clubs or who checked out his recent concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall got something of a shock. Lovable Latka is there all right, but reduced to supporting status; his cute malapropisms ("America is a tough town") are cut entirely; only his accent, and the loony-tune vocabulary, remain...
...said about Joseph Strick's adaptation of the James Joyce masterpiece. The novel may be this century's greatest restatement of that endlessly fascinating story of a youth in revolt against family, society, culture, religion-everything that formed him. But of course it is not the familiar tale Joyce told, but the manner in which he told it, that compels one's attention and awe. And there is simply no way to construct a film that can contain more than a suggestion of the verbal richness of a novel. Interior monologues lose their power when they...
Frady refines that conceit a bit and uses it as an underlying premise of his splendid biography: to many who have been ambushed by change, "Graham has become the only familiar American paragon left; the last hero of the old American righteousness." Through the racial convulsions of the late '50s and '60s, and then Viet Nam, writes Frady, "there finally began to hang over the country, worst of all, forebodings of some actual loss of our own native rectitude, of America's constitutional decency. Perhaps no one is finally so dear as he who returns and restores...