Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's theater of Democratic politics had a familiar look. In one act was Adlai Stevenson, with another skilled, polished performance. In another was Harry S. Truman, the 71-year-old trouper, still giving 'em hell...
...Uncultured!" While Malone and Ellender hogged the limelight, other traveling Americans tried wistfully to get into the act. Justice William O. Douglas and his wife posed for pictures in front of Lenin's tomb: AIabama's Senator John Sparkman turned up at the ballet and a familiar figure ambled through Moscow's subway stations, thrusting out his hand to the mystified citizens. Estes Kefaurer seemed about to enter the preferential primaries in the Moscow oblast. One Sunday. The Keef toured Moscow's churches delivered a speech at the Evangelical Baptists' Church. Afterwards. The Keef made...
Strollers in Venice, where the international set flocked for the annual September season, noted a familiar figure ambling slowly along palace-lined canals wearing unfamiliar sports clothes, recognized the Duke of Windsor, browsing around and getting a breath...
...Italy this refreshed, humanized vision was carried one step further by Giotto, who incorporated into Western art the nobility of classic models. But in the East, with the growing threat of invasion looming over Constantinople, Byzantine art recoiled into familiar formalism. The murals of Kariye Camii stand revealed as the high point of Byzantine humanism, possibly the last great testimony of Byzantine art in its final flowering...
...retrace his P.W. characters' lives, Novelist Klaas uses the familiar time-machine or flashback technique. Wyoming Schoolteacher Fritz Heine is a home-loving navigator who has never really navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering...