Word: unfamiliarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent editorial the CRIMSON criticized the exhibition of paintings by Undergraduates now showing at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art because the work of only six artists was shown. Why are only the paintings and drawings of a few unfamiliar artists hung; where are the sketches done by their friends during lecture hour, they ask. In answer they assume that the directors made no serious attempt to get in touch with the great number of talented undergraduates. The walls are sparsely covered with the paintings of the first half dozen they...
...cinemaddicts unfamiliar with Hollywood fashions, it may seem strange that so sad a picture as The White Sister should have been entrusted for adaptation to Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart. It is not Stewart's writing which weakens the emotional quality of The White Sister. The picture's mood hovers between the realistic and the romantic; at times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna...
...curious inequality in our rate of progress as a people, for he will see us forging ahead along a certain road with a zeal which is blind to obstacles, while is other directions we shall seem to crawl with unwillingness, even fear, lest we get to some unfamiliar place...
...obvious that the tutorial system can never come to any real fruition. Dining hall conferences might take on a rich new aspect of reciprocal frankness and loquacity were the reign of iced cocoa to be challenged. For the tutorial system was transplanted from its lush native environment into an unfamiliar desert where it has been cruelly desiccated and may soon be destroyed...
...even the quips. Walter Winchell launches a first low-brow article among the high-brows. There is a poorly written, poorly thought-out article on Freudianism before Freud. Cabell uses more new words for us than ever in another soliloquy. But most of the items are by names unfamiliar, and one of them "Low Down" by Charles Angoff, is the most disingenuous attack on the best sellers in the last few years which has ever been published. It all sounds very jealous and stupid, and aggravates by getting at the popular books, by damning the New York Critics...