Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State under President Truman, flatly contradicted his old boss. Byrnes said that while he was Secretary of State he had personally discussed the FBI report with Truman on Feb. 6, 1946, and that the President was familiar with it. A memorandum in State Department files confirmed Byrnes's memory. Having read the FBI report, Byrnes had urged Truman to withdraw his nomination of White for the Monetary Fund post. After a hurried check with the Senate, said Byrnes, Truman learned that White had been confirmed that afternoon. Byrnes...
...Davis pulls the familiar tactic of trying the prosecution. He fights not communism but rather those who do fight communism. The reason, so he ways, is to preserve "freedom of mind." Yet the most potent enemy of this freedom in all the world is communism. One would infer from Mr. Davis' diatribe that it was Senator McCarthy who had infiltrated the communist fronters into American university faculties and was protecting them from being fired...
...three important awards, gathered a devoted following and dazzled the critics with his performances. "Playing of Rachmaninoff dimensions," cheered the Times's Olin Downes. ''Complete mastery, with prodigious strength and swiftness." Kapell appeared with 20 major orchestras, and his bouncing plume of black hair became familiar to concert audiences across...
...Ansco Color hymn to the glories of the Army's basic training, was filmed to the tune of a flag-waving theme song (Take the high ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension...
...birth rate statistics, calorie tallies, and record manufacturing figures (probably weighted down with expensive guns) are unmistakable signs of life. Plump children and comparatively merry faces on bus-riders are Brinton's evidence that the people are content. Eccentric, but by no means morbid, paintings still hang in the familiar Parisian galleries and studios, and though many landmarks are gone, Brinton concludes that Europe has changed less in twenty years than America...