Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brightest new face wears an agony that in only ten weeks has grown as familiar to millions as Ed Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T...
...strands, and, in America, is closest to European "congeniality." "I am completely lost in New York," he confesses. Although gowns are not worn here, the Professor quotes the Italian proverb, "The garb doesn't make the friar." Harvard's liberal spirit and conservative facade make this University comfortable and familiar to d'Entreves...
...present organization of the student council, which embodies both class and house representation, doesn't solve the problem very successfully. Names on the candidates-at-large ballot are met with great indifference. For few are familiar enough with all the candidates in their class to vote intelligently. Election of class candidates to the Student Council is often foolishly arbitrary and depends on the appeal of the infantile blurbs published under their pictures...
...when what the people feel about betrayal shifts to what they feel about the actual betrayer. Mother faces her son's murderer; brother stares wildly at brother; a man cowers; a voice implores; it remains to be seen whether blood is thicker than bloodshed. The effect may be familiar, but the moment is theatrical...
...current issue of Vogue tips off its readers that People Are Talking About "the Columbia University classes of the great Zen Buddhist teacher, Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, who sits in the center of a mound of books, waving his spectacles with ceremonial elegance while mingling the philosophical abstract with the familiar concrete...