Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite their Harvard peers' laid-back view of academics, courses have kept all three very busy, thanks largely to language difficulties and unfamiliar "in-class terminology." Like many other freshmen, all three are taking Ec 10; Bing and Jia say they may major in Economics, while Lynn leans towards Applied Math...
Along in an unfamiliar country and spurned by their fellow citizens, the Irish turned to the Church. The first immigrants attended Mass in Boston or Charlestown, but within ten years enough Irish lived in Cambridge to support a parish. In 1841, St. John's, the first Roman Catholic church in the city, was dedicated...
This failure to "widen the circle" is experienced by older immigrants, who are frightened to begin a new life and learn a new, unfamiliar language. Younger immigrants, especially children, adjust faster to the language and thus outstrip their parents in adapting to American society. This, sociologists say, sometimes results in a lack of communication between parents and children. However Natasha and Marina Taube, ages seven and ten, respectively, are as close as ever to their parents...
Such pointillistic touches make Island Journey different from autobiography or nature writing. Though she sometimes takes herself a mite too seriously, Arthur gives an uncanny account of what her experience felt like. At her best, she can make a strange, unfamiliar setting provoke shocks of recognition...
Orbach was talking about the curtain. For anyone unfamiliar with theater idiom, however, other nightmarish alternatives presented themselves. The moment was that terrible, that ghoulish and-it must be said-that calculated. Merrick's decision to reveal the director's death as a grotesque curtain speech resulted in the kind of attention and publicity that a more private notice-say, after the final curtain to cast, crew and friends, or at the scheduled opening-night party-would never have attracted...