Word: familiarizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year, Doug Dadswell, a former Cornell goalie now playing in the Flames' minor league system, got the familiar, "Sieve, sieve" chants howled...
Perhaps Mr. Rosenthal has overlooked the fact that many non-humanities concentrators are mystified by the ubiquitous terms with which he may be more familiar. A friend recently informed me that money laundering is the act of using stolen or swindled money for corrupt purposes. The phrase comes from the olden days when crooks sometimes obtained new bills whose serial numbers were not known, and actually washed them in a washing mashine filled with coffee. This sullied the money so that the thieves could use it for their own purposes without fear of the bills' being traced...
...Rosenthal's article would have been better if he had either (1) mentioned that he was not a scientist, and then complained about the use of scientific terms among and for non-scientists, or (2) discussed terms less familiar to non-humanities concentrators or to a greater percentage of the Harvard community as well. Yet despite the article's shortcomings, Mr. Rosenthal's point--that we might want to know more about the phrases we encounter and use--can be welltaken. Linda L. Hermer...
...Museum of Modern Art's Starry Night, with its oceanic rush of whorling energy through the dark sky, ought by now -- if frequency of reproduction were as lethal as one sometimes thinks -- to be among the most overworked cliches in art. But on the wall, among less familiar paintings (of which there are many in this show, thanks to the persistence with which Pickvance nailed down the loans), they are refreshed, and we see them with new eyes...
Nevertheless, the participants contend, the program contributes importantly to the assassination record. "I defy anyone who is familiar with the Kennedy assassination," says Bugliosi, "to look at the 18 hours of tape or examine the trial transcript and say that the gut issues of the case were not addressed or were treated cosmetically." Even for casual observers raised on Perry Mason, On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald provides a fascinating lesson in history and the law. And, not incidentally, TV's best courtroom drama ever...