Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week laid out chapter and verse in the case of Major Irving Peress. The chronology clearly showed that 1) the Army "discovered" Peress and started him on the way out long before Joe McCarthy roared into the picture. 2) the seemingly strange aspects of the case followed a familiar, tangled pattern of Army red tape...
...Familiar Symbol. Mills and Smith photographed all the stones and reported to Professor Ignacio Bernal, one of Mexico's top archeologists, at Oaxaca City. Bernal recognized the style of the first stone. It was Zapotec, a relic of a high culture that centered around Oaxaca City and reached its peak during the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Until now, said Bernal, there has been no evidence that the Zapotec culture ever extended as far as the Rio Grande region. The carved symbols on the stone are probably dates, and they may be a help toward deciphering the hieroglyphic writing...
...other stones, "The Kings" and "The Queen," were even more exciting archeologically. Bernal had never seen anything like them. Only the big square symbol on the two figures was familiar to him. It has been found elsewhere in Mexico, in ruins as old as the 5th century. Bernal believes that further digging on the Hill of the Toad may tell what people lived in the secluded Rio Grande region before the Zapotecs came...
...pictures seemed somehow familiar to the priest. He hurried back to the cathedral and dragged into the light two nine-foot panels he remembered having seen there. Blackened and blotched, they were put in the hands of a restorer; slowly two saints emerged from the protective layers of dirt. They corresponded precisely with the copies of the missing Montagnas. By last week the experts happily conceded that the lost panels (opposite page) had been found...
...first show in three years by Britain's controversial sculptor Henry Moore. In all, there were 33 bronzes, ranging from an over-life-size King and Queen to tiny, four-inch-high models. Biggest surprise of all was an apparent shift away from Moore's familiar round, cream-smooth figures with holes in their stomachs. Some of the new pieces are spiky spindles; others show a turn to classic Greek lines...