Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew half a million in New York and Chicago alone. Last week the third major U.S. Van Gogh show opened at the City Art Museum of St. Louis: after Nov. 30 it will go to Philadelphia and Toledo. Among the 96 paintings and 85 drawings on view were such familiar items as Sunflowers and The Bedroom; there were also lesser known but equally powerful canvases, including the two masterpieces shown on the next pages...
...problem of duplicating work during the first year is negligible. With the broad sweep of topics and reading from which to choose, almost every student can find at least one General Education course in each area that explores much material new to him. Nor in re-reading familiar material does the student necessarily waste his time, since he is likely to gain fresh insight to the texts...
...Margate, where 4,000 Tory bigwigs sat in party convention beneath a panoply of Union Jacks. They sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and cheered until the rafters rang when he suddenly appeared before them, a beaming, black-jacketed old gentleman, venerable as Queen Victoria, familiar...
...familiar cave girl of the cartoons-dragged toward a cave by a club-lugging male-is usually smiling, as if well pleased with her prospects. This cheerful view of history got a setback last week from evidence unearthed in Germany...
...Robe is familiar in formula, its format is different. While the CinemaScope process does not create a sense of depth so great as in stercoscopic films, one does feel the solidity of both actors and sets. The curving screen, however, two-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, presents unique problems of composition. Director Henry Koster carefully avoids small grouping of actors, but when close-ups are necessary, vast expanses of background distract to the right and left...