Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Ahab or the Uneeda Biscuit boy. In New Hampshire, Kefauver cried: "I'm here to win." Later he explained: "I want to be President of the U.S. because I have great ambitions for our country." In the same spirit, he refused to pose for photographers in his familiar coonskin cap, saying that he has reluctantly scrapped it as his political symbol because "some people think it's a little undignified." Thrown behind schedule by handshakers at Portsmouth, Estes glowed, "Now I know why it's so pleasant to campaign in New Hampshire." Not so pleasant...
...other members of the gang (two, including O'Keefe, were already in jail, one was dead of natural causes, and the remaining two were still at large). O'Keefe's story was no surprise to the FBI and police. For five years they have been frustratingly familiar with many of the details of the crime, and all but one of the eleven gang members (Fugitive James Ignatius Flaherty, 44, a bartender, burglar and escape artist) have been primary suspects. In 1953 a federal grand jury refused to indict the ten for lack of legally admissible evidence...
Tense & Silken. Moreover. Starker thinks, the instrument is not entirely familiar to the men who play it. "In cello playing, the accepted standards are lower than with the violin. Basic under standing of the instrument is not developed. Players may know how to go from one place to another, but not why it is difficult to do so, or how to do it better." To improve this situation, Cellist Starker hopes to start a professional school for string players, teaches cello privately, and travels among U.S. community orchestras as string consultant. Meanwhile, he plays solo whenever he gets the chance...
...object to instrumental music or modern polyphonic compositions if their character is sacred. But if the "simple, even naive" music of the Gregorian Chant is heard in all Catholic churches, wrote the Pope, "the faithful in every part of the world will feel these harmonies to be familiar, and almost homelike, thus experiencing with spiritual comfort the marvelous unity of the Church...
...name of William J. Clonch, though it may mean little to the average undergraduate, is surely familiar to three other members of the University, George 10. Moore, Richard W. Foster, and Morrill 10. Champion. Clench is, of course, the Curator of Mollusks. Moore, Foster, and Champion are, naturally, Associates in Mollusks...