Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism in the press, came a letter from a secret informant who charged over a fictitious signature that "a man named Shelton" was a member of a Communist group on the New York Times. The Senate investigators assumed that their informant was accusing Newsman Willard Shelton, whose name was familiar to them because he had written stories criticizing the subcommittee. But when a process server went to the Times to find Willard Shelton,* he was told that there was no such person on the payroll. Learning that a man named Robert Shelton had a copyreader...
...causes of Cambridge delinquency are the familiar ones. To a certain extent they are environmental. One can work out a pretty close correlation between the degree of dilapidation of an area and the degree of its delinquency. The fairly substantial middle class sections adjoining and to the west of Harvard Yard are relatively free of juvenile problems. But it is in the poorer sections of the city, to the east of Harvard, that the real difficulty lies...
...Choked with method and starved for substance, the play offered only a predicament, not a situation, while the situations that led to the predicament rarely individualized the heroine or galvanized the story. Hers were all-too-familiar aggressions and hurts and guilts; and she too was only a predicament, never really a person...
...excellent production of Macbeth is marred slightly by a very understandable trait: invention. Since next to Hamlet, Macbeth contains the largest number of familiar episodes and speeches, any company that approaches it is challenged constantly, and most feel the need to perform each moment better than ever before. Or, at least, differently. Although the Old Vic creation is always interesting, it is occasionally a bit obvious, and calls unwanted attention to details by superfluous inventiveness...
This book might have borrowed its title more appropriately from Noel Coward's World War II ditty, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans were as innocent as the children of Hamelin town, and that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans...