Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last resort, any weapon will be used," he said. "There is no guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated the human race or believed that all civilization might be destroyed." Equality of Annihilation. The old, familiar figure stumped up to the dispatch box. With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said. "We are all naturally concerned with the prodigious experiments in the Pacific, but ... we would rather have them carried...
...pretty good at cutting out silhouettes, once designed a whole new set of shapes for gingerbread cookies. But Andersen's real gift was painting word pictures that appealed to children everywhere. Nearly all of the youthful illustrators who submitted entries in the current show were already familiar with Andersen's tales in their own languages...
...take it that you are familiar with the name of the Duke of Carringford?' [asked Holmes...
...better stories are in the familiar Chekhov mood, i.e., irresolute characters grope toward unresolved climaxes in an atmosphere of mixed irony and despair. In "The Lodger," a lawyer sells his youth, career and principles to marry for money, only to learn that everyone despises him. In "A Visit to Friends," a Moscow lawyer visits the ancestral estate of childhood friends and learns, in conversations reminiscent of The Cherry Orchard, that they are doomed to lose the estate as they dribble away their days in futility, hoping vainly for a miracle...
...misty prehistoric past that proved a limitless source of myth and legend. But the American past belonged entirely within the historic era. After celebrating their independence, Americans . . . discovered that having banished King George they had lost King Arthur, and along with him a host of patron saints and familiar deities...