Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Familiar faces. Friendly foes...
...First Amendment rights case that had economic consequences to it...," said a former federal ethics official familiar with the cable case but not with Ginsburg's role in it. "If I'm holding cable stock, that is a good thing...
...laurel may be new to Brodsky, who is one of the youngest writers to be so honored in the Nobel's 86-year history, but the recognition of his talent is by now a familiar story. His early poems were championed by such older cultural luminaries as the poet Anna Akhmatova. Getting off a plane in Vienna as a new emigre, Brodsky was taken under the protection and guidance of W.H. Auden, who had a summer house nearby. Within months he found himself in Ann Arbor, a poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan assigned, as he later whimsically...
Brodsky's success in exile has been based on a comparatively modest output: three books of poems translated into English and a collection of essays, Less Than One, published last year. Yet his imagination, steeped in classical and European traditions, seems familiar and accessible to Western readers. Brodsky is a lyricist of loss, of the slipping away of the past, loved ones, youth; his customary tone is one of passion tempered by hard-earned irony. His poems rely heavily on visual impressions, as in this look at the scenery surrounding a state farm: "The horses, inflated casks/ of ribs trapped...
...derogatory statement about the dining hall staff" referred to in the article was unfortunately misconstrued by newcomers to Quincy House who are not familiar with my style which admittedly is susceptible to misunderstanding I meant no disrespect to the checkers. I only meant to express my frustration, through hyperbole, that complicated interhouse schemes would not be workable at Quincy. As I said to Brooke Masters of The Crimson, I meant my remark in an obviously sarcastic way, and to anyone who was offended by it. I offer my sincere apologies, both to Quincy newcomers and to dining hall staff members...