Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I, sea battles were painted almost entirely from hearsay, which did not necessarily interfere with their quality as art. Thomas Birch's oil of the set-to between the United States and the British Macedonian in 1812 had a familiar and a handsome air. It was the fish's-eye view typical of the period-splendid, stormy and bloodless...
...many evocations of Life With Father. The family jokes are really family jokes by now; Father's "Oh Gaaad!" is emblematic as well as explosive. Howard Lindsay & Dorothy Stickney scarcely seem to be giving performances (though they are giving very good ones) ; Father and Mother have become too familiar to seem impersonated...
Actually, the man they might have seemed least familiar to would have been their own original chronicler, Clarence Day Jr. The Father that Clarence knew and drew was tougher to handle and harder to take...
...President's speech was in the familiar tradition of American politics, funny and colorful and nothing but scorn for the opposition, and the crowd ate it up. But the action at the Arena on Thursday night turned out to be a new kind of spectacle...
...with the Pre-Fabricated Heart." ("So normal and well-rounded, but she sends her dreams to the laundry.") It has lyrics by John LaTouche, music by Paul Bowles and features the voices of Libby Holman and Josh White on the sound track. The girl in the case is that familiar type of sexual idealist who later becomes a rampant realist...