Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed series of stories about the saintly deviltries of Village Priest Don Camillo in his running war with Communist Mayor Peppone. One reason for the book's popularity may be that, while to U.S. readers such shenanigans are amusingly exotic, to Frenchmen they are amusingly, and often disturbingly, familiar. There is, for instance, the case of the mayor, the priest and the hearse of Civrac. Scratches & Mildew. In 1935 Father Jean-Rene Lagrave came to the village of Civrac-en-Medoc (pop. 580) in southern France, and took up residence in the parish house beside the beautiful, red-tiled...
...exactitude. Berenson confirmed, by close study, that every artist's picturemaking is as personal as his handwriting. Even if the painter works in a strict tradition, his personal touch will appear in small things: the way he paints ear lobes, or hair, or crosshatches a shadow. By familiarizing himself with Italian Renaissance art down to such details, Berenson became the reigning expert on the subject. His overriding idea-that art must be experienced to be appreciated, that the viewer should try to lose himself in the beauty of the picture-has liberated many of his readers from the cold...
...trouble runs deeper than the Boston press, and it is not a phenomenon of recent years alone. In 1912, revolutionary leader John S. Reed '10 was able to write a statement which sounds surprisingly familiar today. "What's wrong with Harvard?" he asked. "Something is the matter. Numerous letters from alarmed alumni pour into the President's office every day, asking if Socialism and anarchy are on the rampage among undergraduates. When faculty members speak in the Midwest, someone always rises to ask if Harvard is really the hot-bed of hair-brained Radicalism that newspapers allege. Old grads shake...
...moment Sir Winston Churchill was there in all his glory-venerable as Queen Victoria, familiar as Big Ben. Next moment, or so it seemed, the dauntless old figure had vanished, and Britain had the feeling that John Bull himself was gone. At 4:25 p.m., in the quiet of an April afternoon, 80-year-old Sir Winston Spencer Churchill put on his black frock coat and drove off to see the Queen...
...Frenchmen expecting to touch familiar ground with the "real art," the 108 paintings and 22 sculptures by 67 U.S. artists was a bewildering sea of unknown names and works. Small groups, picking favorites, quickly formed in front of Ben Shahn's Squash Court and U.S. Primitive Joseph Pickett's Manchester Valley. Contemporary U.S. abstract art proved almost too much to take. Among the sculptures, only Richard Lippold's shimmering construction of chromium and stainless-steel wires and Alexander Calder's familiar mobiles drew much appreciative comment. French artists took a hard, professional look at Jackson Pollock...