Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets her clothes from Designer Mollie Parnis) stopped off at Steyerman's Department Store and bought nine dresses-linens, cottons and silk prints (size 14) in small, muted patterns. On impulse Mamie also tried on some of Steyerman's new over-the-fore-head hats. The upshot, familiar to many a U.S. husband, was that she emerged from Steyerman's with the same black pillbox she had been wearing when she left the Humphrey plantation...
...show this month added another sponsor familiar to U.S. quiz addicts: Revlon...
...urbanization pattern is familiar. Rising population density lowers the physical standards of the city. The well-to-do residents emigrate to more attractive suburban areas. The tax base decreases, and the tax rate climbs. Industry is driven out by taxes and the environment. Municipal service grows worse, as the need grows greater. Crime and delinquency rates rise, disease increases, and schools become blackboard jungles. In short, the familiar pattern of metropolitan slum living becomes inescapable...
...studies of store fronts are now familiar, not for the Victorian corsets or the old top hats, but for Atget's treatment of glass and reflection, which is strikingly modern, indeed almost surrealistic. His photographs were in fact first published in a Surrealistic magazine in 1926. The study of a tree stump will also strike many as similar to the contemporary Edward Weston's Point Lobos series. Both in the problems he proposed and in his direct approach to them, Atget was at once a pioneer and a master. This is a rare opportunity to examine the work...
...author's technical skill. By presenting the saga in the form of a fairy tale, the author has freed himself to present his own view of the world, untrammeled by popular prejudice and preconception. To create a hero or to pit man against fate in the world of familiar experience is next to impossible, for the modern reader has long taken for granted the scientific proposition that man makes his own history, no matter how far from his hopes it may appear...