Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the experiment carried out by other universities. These have mostly involved the transmission of a lecture delivered in one room to viewers seated in one or more other rooms. Technically, this transmission has proved entirely feasible. Through the use of vidicon television equipment rather than the familiar orthicon, the experimenters have managed to reduce costs considerably. Vidicon has a lower initial cost, a lower maintenance cost, and can be operated by less highly skilled personnel (i.e. students and others available on a university campus) than orthicon...
Fall-Out or Saucers? A few pigeon fanciers blame an unusual combination of the pigeons' normal enemies: hawks, hunters, high-tension wires, TV aerials, adverse weather. Others are not so complacent, pointing out that these familiar dangers would not be likely to increase in New Jersey, Arizona and England at the same time...
Shuffle to Savagery. Tragedy begins trivially. A bombinating Fleet Street bounder-Tulbach Browne of the Daily Thresh-has come to report on Pharamaul, and by a familiar "liberal" reversal of traditional loyalties, he sees his own country automatically in the wrong. The truth, as he reports it to his paper, is that gallant young Chief Dinamaula is being frustrated by gin-swilling British officials. As a grand gesture, Reporter Browne provokes Dinamaula into asking for a drink at an all-white hotel. He is refused, and in his humiliation mutters something about his hopes of marrying a white girl...
United Nations intervention might appear to the Soviets to be less of a direct attack, but this could only be true if none of her familiar Western big-power antagonists were among the interveners, and would not then be sure. But it is highly questionable whether an effective force could be amalgamated from the other U.N. countries, especially when it is considered that the Egyptian affair, has already drained off a large part of the available manpower. Furthermore, some of the nations that saw a responsibility to send troops to Suez might not construe such an obligation for Hungary...
Although a few of the lines seem terribly familiar--"You swear all the time," "I do nothing of the kind, damn it!"--the mood is buoyant, because the stage is often full of two alligators, nice bits of Life With Father, and Walter Pidgeon, who has a wonderful time bounding around in the title role. He has an effective supporting cast headed by Diana van der Vlis as his boxing daughter, and George Grizzard as her finance. The several actresses who play society women all flutter very nicely. So does the play...