Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...games, hobbies and travel, but most of the time he writes about himself. Thurber Country is the latest in a long and proud line of collections of these little pieces, and even by Thurber standards, it is good one. New Yorker readers will find a majority of the articles familiar, but certainly no less delightful for a second, or even a third or fourth reading. Among the seven selections never before published in the United States is a short discourse on the Thurberian approach to word games, pointedly titled, "Do You Want to Make something...
Backbone of America is a comedy containing such familiar Broadway ingredients as the hard-as-nails career girl (actually, she is soft as butter inside), the aspiring author who must write advertising copy instead of novels, and a country bumpkin who proves to have more intelligence and integrity than the city slickers. Along the way. Sherwood pokes some gentle fun at television itself and at the giveaway psychology of U.S. advertising...
...using ultraviolet light to irradiate cheese-starting materials, the bacteria cultures that are curdled in milk to give cheeses their individual flavors. Knight turned his findings over to University of Minnesota scientists, who began the job of making a new cheese. Their base was the shepherd boy's familiar mold, now called Penicillium roquejortii...
...first big-name novel of the new year shapes up as a bookstore hit and a literary hit or miss. In Cress Delahanty, Jessamyn West (The Friendly Persuasion, The Witch Diggers) camps on a familiar theme, the growing pains of a lively, sometimes lonely adolescent. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for January, Cress is episodic in form, and never takes a deep enough drag on its subject to give anyone a sharp sense of reality, but as a kind of filter-tipped "Life with Daughter," it makes engaging light reading...
...problems of a freshman basketball coach is to mold a team out of boys who come from all parts of the country and are not familiar with our so-called Eastern style of play. Schreiber and Hamilton have been slow in founding into form because they come from the Mid-West, where the emphasis was on the zone defense. Since we use the man-to-man exclusively, they have been weak on defense. Haughey, on the other hand, has had to regain his basketball legs which he lost in freshman football...