Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measured cadence, the sepulchral timbre and the Teutonic-accented English were all familiar. But there was a rare note of urgency in Henry Kissinger's keynote address at the Brussels conference on NATO. Excerpts...
...justification for giving the audience as little as they can: a couple of laughs, one unexpected plot twist, a happy ending. Yet it does not have to be that way. When those 26 minutes are in the hands of precise miniaturists instead of slobs, TV's most familiar formula suddenly offers a bonanza of comic and emotional possibilities...
...newly-appointed committee moved quickly to establish the department by setting up courses and searching for scholars. The committee soon encountered what was to be an increasingly familiar problem--it could not find scholars it wanted to tenure. Southern, the second tenured professor of the department, was not appointed until...
...reading list likewise runs from Thomas Mann's short stories to Remarque's familiar All Quiet on the Western Front. But this won't be a frolic through translated works: The texts are all read in German, although Tatar will conduct class discussions in English...
...carried a supply of solitude in and a supply of observations out. In his essay (Walking the Dead Diamond River) and travel books (Notes from the Century Before), he displayed a gift for elegy that made the city as remote as the boondock, and a knack for seeing the familiar for the first time. In Africa, it is the unfamiliar that moves him. After flying, bouncing and sliding around the continent's largest nation, Hoagland learns more than he needs to about Dinkas, Turkanas, mercenaries, missionaries, coups, assassinations, the green monkey disease, the protein value of dura soghum, going...