Sadly, I was far from home, and my sense of familiarity came from Bea Arthur.
But the eerie familiarity also comes from an American source: Herman Melville.
Their appearances together are often infused with an easy familiarity that comes from 30 years of marriage.
Within the buildings themselves, shared elevators and central courtyards create the familiarity that comes from everyday contact.
The couple exhibit a familiarity that comes from years together, first as graduate students at Pepperdine in the 1970s (they married in 1978) and business partners since 1986.
It has also been a long journey for the McEnroes, who perhaps, more than in years past, could use the comfort and familiarity that comes from being at the Open.
Despite the sense of familiarity that comes from having watched his television plays of the 70s and 80s, or read his autobiographical stories, he is not in any real sense knowable.
Benefits include ease of operation and the ability to leverage existing systems and infrastructure designed for general use with a large set of latent capabilities to draw on when needed, as well as the familiarity that comes from reuse of existing, known, and well-understood security and operational models.
Aklilu Wendaferew, who works with the homeless and Ethiopian immigrants in Toronto, says the familiarity that comes from living and working with immigrants daily counteracts fears of foreigners, and that employers are not reluctant to hire them.That seems borne out by an opinion poll commissioned by the government.
The contrasting philosophies, coupled with the familiarity that comes from having played eighteen games against each other during the regular season, has already manifested itself in trash-talk from Milwaukee's normally mild-mannered pitcher Zack Greinke and a first-inning warning in Game One after Prince Fielder was hit by a pitch.
