Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion and in the opinion of others who are familiar with the record of Owen Lattimore, his experience in this field has been purely superficial...
Since General Education's inception in 1948, instructors have been plagued by the fact that many freshmen coming from superior schools are familiar with the material offered in the elementary courses in one or more of the three areas. To avoid this needless duplication, the Committee on Educational Policy, in its recommendations for a new, broad system of advanced standing and placement made two days ago, proposed that an exceptionally well prepared student be permitted to substitute one or two advanced courses for the elementary ones...
General Education was born from the belief that every thinking individual should be familiar with a certain basic core of Western intellectual tradition, and that modern specialized education failed to present this heritage. Proponents say that its scope is so broad that no secondary school curriculum could possibly cover the same areas. But it is senseless for a student to spend a whole year re-hashing material he has already assimilated. G.E.'s value lies in its unifying approach to knowledge, not in the specific subjects studied. The advanced G. E. courses and many offered in the various departments follow...
...what might be accomplished at Berlin generally ranged from fear-that the West might somehow be tricked out of its wallet-to a conviction, especially among the professionals, that the West's diplomats would probably be lulled, dulled and bored to death by the mechanical clatter of familiar Russian propaganda. Even the most optimistic resigned themselves to a long preliminary wrangle about seating arrangements, topics and procedure...
...Familiar Sound. This week the conference was transferred from the U.S. to the Soviet sector of Berlin. In the first session in the giant, new Soviet embassy, Molotov submitted his own plan for Germany. It had a familiar sound. He suggested that the four powers sign a peace treaty with a united Germany-but made no mention of guaranteeing free elections first. Essentially his proposal was a rehash of what the Russians proposed in 1952. No prior commitments (such as EDC) would be permitted the new government, its arms would be limited to "tasks of a purely internal character...