Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guest of honor 75-year-old Harry Fosdick sat pink-cheeked and snap-eyed through the encomiums. Then he rose to speak for himself with the familiar, measured voice that was the best-known and most influential one in Protestantism during...
...about everything from his imprisonment and trial to his confession and treatment by the Reds, he seemed to find it hard to tell what he had undergone. Said he: "It would be very difficult for me to describe what happened so that I could be understood by anyone not familiar with such proceedings, or with what is done, individually ... If what I was heard to say or was reported to have said during the trial sounded like I was reciting something, why, that...
...Moon and the Bonfires is a return-of-the-native story in which Author Pavese develops a familiar 20th century theme, the need for roots. After 20 years of roaming, some of it in the U.S., his nameless narrator-hero comes back to the Piedmontese village of his boyhood. Born a bastard, he gets no prodigal's welcome, but the villagers who remember him are deferential before his hard-won rise to respectability. Wifeless and childless, he has few bonds with the future, is bent only on uncovering his links with the past...
Christianity has a long prison record. Ever since the days of the Apostle Paul, Christians have been familiar with the barred window and the dungeon cell. And ever since the first Good Friday when the cock crew and Peter wept, Christians have died rather than deny their faith and save their skins. This is the strict code of the Christian prisoner, but what of the compromises in between? Last week one missionary publicly castigated another for keeping his religion but buying his freedom with falsehoods...
...most familiar faces in Mexico is that of a priest with the resounding name. Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla. The father of Mexican independence, Hidalgo was shot by a firing squad in 1811 after leading a revolt against Spain, and since then every artist worth his salt has honored him with a portrait. Diego Rivera has shown Hidalgo's brooding visage in half a dozen murals; Jose Clemente Orozco depicted him with a flaming torch of liberty and counted the painting among his greatest works. The last of the big three to tackle Hidalgo is David Alfaro...