Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grade reader text today "introduces the child to no famous writers whatsoever except as (in the manual for teachers) it suggests supplementary library books." Thus, the modern educationists are actually cheating their pupils. "What makes any child want to read is not only information or a banal story about familiar things and types, but his awakening, if it ever comes, to the . . . freshness and originality of thought and expression, commanded by great masters of prose and poetry...
...history which is recorded on this mural, Tufts has grown in value from $100,000, the amount raised to found the college, to its present finaincial value of $36,000,000, of which half is in endowment. Most Tufts men are familiar with the story of how its original funds were raised. At a Universalist convention in New York the Reverend Ballou preached the sermon to open the convention on the forty-eighth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke: "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of them...
...Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert you/ We'll be together/ In stormy weather...
...Duchess of Windsor, to many a most enviable woman, believes that she has an "appalling" place in history. This account of how she got there, according to her loyal publishers, was written by her alone, but ghostly fingers may nevertheless be detected at work with the familiar cheesecloth. The life of Wallis Warfield of Baltimore is well-known-perhaps too well. But this retelling carries the great interest of being her own first official version of how she played finders-keepers, losers-weepers with a king and his kingdom...
AMONG the world's great waterways the mighty Mississippi, Germany's strategic Kiel Canal, the vital Panama and troubled Suez are all familiar names. But one waterway with more importance than fame is a muddy, undramatic complex of barge canals and shallow channels rambling 1,116 miles around the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history...