Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, Russia contributed the Moscow Art Theatre; last season, Italy gave us Duse; Firmin Gémier and his Odéon troupe are the famous foreigners who talk to the playgoer in an unfamiliar tongue this season. Their talk is French...
...Pachmann in the practice of his art, critics differ. There is a certain difficulty in estimating the proficiency of an agreeable old fellow who persists in distracting your attention by a rapid fire of chatty comment and sportive gesture. His work is uneven?varying from snatches of irresistible and unfamiliar beauty to heinous sins against the purest of arts. Anyway, he is worth watching...
...proposed celebration of today as Navy Day. But the militaristic basis of the plan he concealed beneath a quite proper emphasis upon the peaceful achievements of the naval forces in exploration, charting, assisting commerce, mapping currents and winds; in sum, making the seas less the dreaded playground of unfamiliar forces...
...instructors in music education believe that the primary purpose of any study of music, in public schools or elsewhere, is to get nearer to understanding and feeling what is excellent and noble and really joyous in music. They believe, also, that no person unfamiliar with or unappreciative of the best music, including folk songs and the choral works of such masters as Bach and Brahms, is capable of carrying out that purpose or even of understanding...
Such experiences as this have a novel ring, but they are not totally unfamiliar ; others have undergone them, written about them, cinematized them...