Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conviction of the emptiness of life without religion is, of course, inherent in his answers to the students' doubts. Throughout the book, he draws on his personal faith to preach beyond the limits of the questions raised. He bases most of his arguments for Christian doctrine on three familiar pillars: "X is not enough," free will, and the Scriptures. The first he uses largely to combat over weening faith in science. Invoking by implication the Prime Mover, he argues that science can not penetrate the world of the spirit...
...boisterous holiday audience that saw the opening night, happy to have somewhere to go during An Tostal, the first Welcome-to-Ireland festival, even if it meant sampling a new opera in a less-than-fully-familiar language. But Dublin enjoyed the spiky modern harmonies played by the twelve-piece orchestra, and roared its delight at the slapstick on the stage. It looked as if the show would sell out for its whole week...
Confusion & Patchwork. As for the approved schools, they are still floundering in confusion: they have never even decided what their applicants should know. "Prelegal and legal education are in fact divorced from each other . . . There is no attempt at synthesis . . . Anyone familiar with the huge offerings of fragmentized courses of a university must realize that the student is likely to come through this ordeal with an education that is little more than a patchwork...
Duca's teaching methods are simple as they are sound. He carefully leaves the word "art" out of his discussions with the boys, and he makes no effort to dictate subject matter to them or to improve their drawing. Confronted with an indecipherable picture, he never says the familiar, discouraging words: "What's it supposed...
Trouble Along the Way (Warner) travels a well-worn screen route along which moviegoers will encounter some fairly familiar figures: a humorously crotchety rector (Charles Coburn) of an impoverished Roman Catholic college, a cynical ex-football coach (John Wayne) who comes to the school's rescue by trying to put together a winning gridiron team, a pretty probation officer (Donna Reed) who, at the instigation of Wayne's unpleasant ex-wife (Marie Windsor), is investigating whether Wayne's eleven-year-old daughter (Sherry Jackson) is being neglected by her father. By the time Trouble Along...