Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity will be playing under two disadvantages tomorrow: first, the obvious one of playing on unfamiliar ground, and second, the fact that one and probably two of its key players will be out of action with injuries...
...fifth of the eight William James Lectures on Philosophy and Psychology, the physicist outlined the history of the new physics showing how it led to "An Unfamiliar Order." (This was the title of the lecture...
...person unfamiliar with course organization at Harvard, the two-week period before midyear, and the three week interim before final, exams might look suspiciously like time set aside for cramming. In fact, he might think unprincipled professors used these periods to gather up the odds and ends, or the dregs, of their courses, enabling them to stuff their students a little fuller and to cross off the remaining titles on their syllabi. Taking notice of the remarkable number of extracurricular activities at Harvard, and taking human nature into account, he probably would doubt that periods placed at such propitious times...
...There is a tendency, a product of the egotism in all of us, to mock the unfamiliar in other men's faith and worship. Such words as 'heathen,' 'idolatry,' 'superstition.' are used more often as smear words or in derision than in their legitimate meanings. They are words we hurl at others; seldom do we apply them to ourselves. Yet every man should command respect in the moment when he bows before his god. We may believe that his conception of the Divine lacks valuable, even essential, elements. His forms of worship...
...group that does plays but rather "theater" with relation to life. Barrault himself said, "The object of our kind of theater is contact with contemporary life." If there was any particular way to appreciate this concept, as embodied by the Barrault company, it was by giving in to an unfamiliar abandon. The abandon which in Latin countries surrounds a fair or a visit from a traveling circus...