Word: unfamiliarly
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...second individual win came in the 200-yard breaststroke, an unusual event for the sophomore. She clocked in at 2:25.33, followed by freshmen Victoria Pratt and Alicia Lightbourne.The Crimson’s lineup was full of surprises, as many swimmers stepped outside their comfort zones to compete in unfamiliar events against a weaker opponent. “It can’t just be about the times you go, it has to be about racing,” Morawski said. “When it’s a completely different event, you have nothing to lose...
...more than a half-century, Studs Terkel, who died on Oct. 31 at 96, had an ongoing conversation with America. This elfin-looking man, usually dressed in a red-plaid shirt, ventured out into the unfamiliar with tape recorder in hand and spoke with people whom he liked to call the etceteras of the world. In his presence, they mattered. He knew they had something to say--about race, about class, about work, about hope, about community. About America...
...Belarusian forest and escape the Nazis. Zwick was inspired to document this unique and moving narrative after a friend showed him an obituary in the New York Times for Zus Bielski, one of the brothers. “It was a story of a familiar moment but a very unfamiliar story within that moment,” Zwick said. “That they were reluctant heroes, that they were complex, ordinary, unsophisticated men who discovered something fine, even magnificent in themselves...that to me is a very inspiring notion that people can rise to occasions and discover resources that...
...Monsterpiece Theater, and in Peanuts Snoopy imagined himself as "Alistair Beagle." Cooke died in 2004, at 95, and would have been 100 this past Thursday. In celebration, Masterpiece is running an hour-long biography, The Unseen Alistair Cooke, this Sunday, with reruns throughout the week. Even for those unfamiliar with Britain's genial emissary to the U.S., the show (produced and directed by Rachel Jardine) is worth TiVoing for its fond but not uncritical portrait of a man who knew everybody, remembered everything...
...That's new. Until recently, the idea of Japanese values conjured up little more than a picture of workaholic company drones. But throughout the world - even in places where Japanese colonialists once unleashed brutal wartime campaigns - the world's second largest economy has suddenly been thrust into the unfamiliar position of exemplar. Developing countries such as Vietnam are studying how Japan refashioned its war-ravaged economy into a technological powerhouse that still maintains its cultural identity. Industrializing nations are looking for ecological guidance from a place that has managed to become an economic giant while still embracing a conservationist ethos...