Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story outline is familiar enough to newspaper readers: Angel Chavez, a teenage boy of Mexican descent, is on trial for the murder of a girl who died of a heart attack when Angel made a crude pass at her. Glenn Ford, as a young university law instructor who is out for trial experience, takes on the boy's case in association with a shrewd legal eagle played by Arthur...
Tourist Snapshots. One of Gunther's chief qualities is his tourist's knack for relating the far-off to the familiar. Thus, the muffled women of Tangier are like "wads of Kleenex," while some native chiefs remind him of Chicago ward heelers. Often he exaggerates and occasionally he is downright naive, but when it comes to picturesque details, Reporter Gunther has them all. "Giraffes," he reports from East Africa, "intertwine their necks when making love." And he is equally informative on human marriage customs...
Herberg sums up: "The familiar distinction between religion and secularism appears to be losing much of its meaning under present-day conditions. Both the 'religionists' and the 'secularists' cherish the same basic values and organize their lives on the same fundamental assumptions." True Christian or Jewish witness, Herberg points out, may be "much more difficult under these conditions than when faith has to contend with overt and avowed unbelief...
...Wells has been in ever since. Last week, back in the U.S. for the fourth time, it was greeted by New Yorkers as an old friend. Indeed, it had not changed. Along with its 48 tons of imposing scenery and costumes, it brought a repertory that included a familiar full-length Swan Lake, a new production of Coppelia, a restaging of Fokine's Firebird; all these are ballets reaching to a wide public that cares less for pirouettes than for the pageantry of a world peopled by kings and queens, wicked magicians and good fairies in butterfly-drawn coaches...
Some Misunderstanding. The 80-year-old MopnoagTabernacle Choir has been familiar-to U.S." radio listeners for 26 years, but it had never toured abroad, largely because of cost. One problem: most of the choir members-including lawyers, clerks, filling-station attendants-would have to get leaves from their jobs. But the current tour (estimated cost: $800,000) was finally made possible by benefit dances, banquets, concerts and outright solicitation. To cover any remaining deficit, the wealthy church will dig into its own treasury. And employers, whether Mormons or not, gladly gave their employees leave...