Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third chief virtue of this book should recommend it equally to those familiar and those unfamiliar with E. B. White. The Second Tree is in effect both a resume and a nearly complete sampling of his career and his work. Ranging in date from 1935 to 1953, its contents include pieces in each of the styles presented in previous homogeneous collections: parables, satires, and parodies (Quo Vadimus), essays of the more classic form (One Man's Meat), notes from the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" (Every Day Is Saturday and The Wild Flay), and songs and poems...
...sound bitter it is because may familiar at the Shrine of Savoy begrudges all time taken from the libretto and score. Even a biographical version by the pair themselves wouldn't be well received under the circumstances--unless, of course, it was in the form of a G & S operetta...
...branching into relatively undeveloped areas of study. According to a common anecdote, probably as old as the Piltdown Man and just about as authentic, every Navaho family consists of a father, a mother, two children, and an anthropologist. Peabody has done it share in the past to develop such familiar channels of research, but pr recent years, Museum expeditions have tended to enter virgin anthropological territory...
...only previous contact with Bushmen had been around police posts," Marshall explains. "Most of the Bushmen we worked with had never even seen white people before." Even the elementary problem of communication proved a vexing one, for the expedition had extreme difficulty in obtaining native interpreters who were familiar with the Bushman tongue...
...acting is not uniformly topnotch, perhaps because the film, though made in Italy, is spoken mostly in English, a language some of the actors are not very familiar with. But whatever the rest of the cast may lack is more than made up by Anna Magnani. Not since she emerged in Open City, as a sort of back-alley Duse, has Magnani pelted an audience with so much juicy histrionic fruit. She raves, she twitters, she hauls off and slugs. In one astonishing scene, a whole bullfight transpires in her face far more impressively than it could have been shown...