Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tales had a familiar ring. Like those of P.W.s released from German and Japanese camps in World War II, they reflected the accumulated bitterness and hatred of pent-up men fighting to survive in an enemy prison. In front of movie cameras and a battery of correspondents, last week's returnees charged that some of their buddies in the Communist prison camps had turned informers. What was new about their complaint was the added complication of buddies converted to Communism...
Having said all of this, Malenkov fell back on the familiar Soviet doubletalk about "certain American circles" who are "putting their stakes on war," and called NATO "the main threat to the cause of peace." He talked fondly of Iran, and wished to be "good neighborly" with Turkey; he was anticipating "normalization" of relations with Yugoslavia and Greece; he was anxious to supply bread, coal and business contracts to "the glorious Italian people"; he sympathized with Japanese attempts "to win back the independence of their country" from...
Biggest to fall was Foreign Minister Pak Hong Wong, a Vice Premier, who has already been replaced by a face familiar to Westerners: taciturn General Nam II, the ex-schoolteacher turned military dandy, who was the Reds' chief truce negotiator. The Communist radio last week accused ex-Foreign Minister Pak of complicity in the plot. Pak, party member since 1920, onetime party secretary and onetime student at Moscow's Lenin University, was not among those tried. His time may come later...
...ends the life story of Link Williams, hero of The Narrows, by Ann Petry. It is a story of black and white, love and violence. One of the remarkable things about it is its setting: not the conventional smoldering South, nor the familiar, raw Northern city slum (which Author Petry well described in The Street, 1946), but the wind-blown Connecticut town of Monmouth, where dark, violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make...
...throw the British out of the Canal Zone any time we want." At 11:05 on Liberation night, the time the army moved last year against King Farouk, 101 guns boomed across the brooding Nile. Four hours later, a great crowd gathered with Naguib to hear the muezzin chant familiar verses from the Koran. Then, as the sun came up, they knelt in humility with their faces towards Mecca...