Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jawaharlal Nehru stood upright in his open black Cadillac as it rolled beneath triumphal arches through the villages and towns of southeast India. "WELCOME, JEWEL OF ASIA," the customary placards proclaimed as he journeyed, garlanded, along paths strewn with palm leaves. Yet despite the familiar scenes of adulation, he seemed distant, tired, and ineffectual. Speaking from a platform 15 feet above the crowds of illiterate peasants, he projected his own confusion. He is against "the Communists," but not against "Communism." He does not approve of Communist "methods," but as for Communist objectives, "I like them." "Does Nehru Sahib wish...
...Bridges to Cross earns a profit, it will make its subject--the $2,500,000 Brink's robbery--look like petit larceny. The film's chances for financial success are limited, however, since it appeals mainly to Bostonians wanting to see some familiar scenes and to the robbery's original cast wanting to see some unfamiliar and ludicrously phoney ones. The Boston scenes, by the way, are real, for the Universal people were not satisfied with a cardboard Common. Unfortunately, however, they were perfectly satisfied with cardboard characterization and plot...
Your primary criticism, that Sweet Briar's services in the fields of "advice and family living" and academic activities are useless and restraining and therefore an unnecessary expense, would scarcely some valid to the mature mind familiar with the situation in Franco...
...Those familiar with the language of University rulings will not look for rhyme in the gate decree; fortunately for the sake of this crusade, neither is the ruling blessed with reason. Arguments for the locking seem to concern a hard core of young gentlemen from the Cambridge precincts who find sanctuary within the Harvard Yard. Because their department is not always in tone with the restraint of Mower freshmen, these citizens of the area have been termed undesirable by the University's finest. Attempts were made to curb access to this haven and locking the gates...
...Martin-Rayburn transfer of office had a familiar ring: they had changed places three times before. It reminded Martin of "an old ditty that went something like this: 'Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...