Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Koerner's painting of Robin Roberts [May 28]: the look on Pitcher Roberts' face seemed strangely familiar to me. Then I placed it. It is also the look with which the Asiatic pedestrian fixes a motorist who honks...
Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, a man who makes vast good sense when he confines his conversation to the familiar worlds of industry and production, demonstrated again last week his equally vast ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time "in the wrong place. At Quantico, Va., where he had gathered 150 of his civilian and military defense leaders for the annual review of defense spending, Wilson and newsmen engaged in this exchange...
Little Appeal. Stockhausen's sound sources are instruments familiar to any radio engineer: a sine-wave generator to produce a pure tone, a pulse generator to control timing of the sounds, a noise generator to produce vague rumbles, whooshes and thunders, and various filters. Once he has created the desired combination of sounds, he records them on tape and snips and joins and re-records until his composition is done. It took him a year and a half to complete a 17-minute composition. The result has many of the qualities of twelve-tone music by the late Anton...
Bach for Percussion (New York Percussion Ensemble conducted by Harold Glick; Audio Fidelity). Four familiar Bach organ works rapped out on the numerous wood, skin and metal objects of a modern percussion department. The result has the effect of an X-ray photograph of a flower-barely recognizable, eerie and oddly fascinating...
...behaved differently because it was a "tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array of fission products-ruthenium, rhodium, tellurium, iodine, cerium, neodymium, etc.-as well as uranium 237 and neptunium 239. This combination of elements indicated that the explosion was the "fission-fusion-fission" type, which gets much of its energy from the fission of normally inactive uranium...