Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because it's the youngest team in Crimson history--"Oh gosh yes, no doubt about it," says Cleary. As many as ten freshmen will be on the squad when the season starts November 20 against Northeastern, led by a core of returning sophomores and juniors. The familiar names are gone, names like the Hughes Corporation (George and Jackie), Gino Purdy, captain Jim Cochrane. Only three seniors remain...
...familiar problem--defense--may plague the Crimson. With standout blueliner Jackie Hughes off trying to land a spot with the touring U.S. Olympic troupe and sophomore Mitch Olsen out on ac pro, inexperience will hamper attempts at a fast start. Mere freshmen--Scott Sangster and Mark Fusco--join juniors Carter and Bobby Fowkes to form the top two pairings: and although the first-year men look impressive in practice, they're not Hughes and Olsen--not yet, anyway...
After a year of understudying to the likes of Jim Curry (68 career receptions). Larry Brown hit Horner's now-familiar number (20) 21 times for 399 yards during the 1978 season...
Nonetheless, the simple genius of Brel's music carries the show. With deftness and economy this balladeer of the down-and-out mixed the tender and the funereal into a weltschmertz as heady as any German musician has ever brewed. These are songs that use familiar sounds--the sagging languor of a torch-song, the steady intensity of an army march--to put the listener off-guard and then knock him flat with cynical or black-humorous lyrics. "Marathon" goes on a careless, accelerating dance through the 20th century, nostalgically stopping at favorite decades, until the abrupt, eschatological ending puts...
...responsibility to like abstract art and a moral duty to defend it. If we don't fulfill these tasks, we are insensitive. Worse, he labels as brain-damaged those who refuse to properly appreciate modern art. Those who condemn abstraction do so, because they require an "already known order, familiar and reassuring." Amazingly, Schapiro calls on a neurologist to verify this "handicap": "The sense of order in the patient is an expression of his impoverishment with respect to an essentially human trait: the capacity for adequate shifting of attitude...