Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Punchy Protest. Not everyone was so misty-eyed. One evening last week Manchester's ornate old Free Trade Hall, a familiar shrine of well-intentioned protests, was jammed with 2,500 Britons and East European refugees (including the famed Polish World War II General Anders), who had gathered at a shilling a head to protest the forthcoming visit of Russians Khrushchev and Bulganin. The meeting was called by waspish Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge.* Resolving with a group of friends to "do something about these murderers coming here," Muggeridge had tried to rent London's own sedate Albert Hall...
...difference was the partnership that is becoming increasingly familiar in the Middle East-Egypt backed by Soviet Russia. Egypt's Nasser began the offensive...
Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet has been a favorite of Russian audiences ever since it was premiered at Leningrad's Kirov Theater in 1940. It has plenty of pageantry, a familiar, heart-wrenching plot sufficiently removed from the realities of the Socialist state to be acceptable on all levels, and a fat part for Russia's legendary Prima Ballerina Galina Ulanova, now 46. The Russians, well aware that...
Generations of Intrigue. To young King Hussein the complex intrigues of Araby are as familiar as baseball statistics to a U.S. teenager. He is a member of the proud and once mighty Hashemite clan, which held sway over holy Mecca for 38 generations and trace their ancestry to the Prophet's great-grandfather. Ever since the austere warriors of Ibn Saud stormed out of Arabia's deserts in 1919 and drove them into exile, the Hashemites have found intrigue a matter of simple survival amidst ambitious rivals...
...musical illiterate, unable to read or write a note. While growing up in The Hague, Pia heard a lot of jazz. "I don't know why," she says, "but I always liked that jazz rhythm." At eight, she sat at the family piano and syncopated familiar waltzes and minuets. From recordings of Louis Armstrong. Benny Goodman, Count Basic and other U.S. masters, she learned how to play around a melody, but when she went to study music-reading and correct technique-under the director of a Dutch conservatory of music, Pia could learn nothing. After three lessons the director...