Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fell. When he got up, the mountains were silent again. Keith Jacobsen and the second boy, Larry Schinke, had vanished. Survivor Almquist started the 4½ miles back to the pass. He broke one ski. But he plunged fearfully on, waded along the Snoqualmie River until he found a familiar landmark, then took off through the snow again. It was only 3 o'clock in the afternoon when he burst out near a ski lodge at the road, yelling, "Help! Help! Avalanche...
...problems of defending academic freedom, financing a library, dealing with neurotic faculty and alumni pressure. As Aiken faces these problems, he emerges able but overly sensitive and not at all confident of his ability to carry out a bold academic policy. About him, within Rowley College, Mr. Morrison sketches familiar characters--intense academicians, professors frightened by the threat of loyalty probes. These he draws well, all mature men and women. But the students in Rowley College seem somehow unreal...
...suffers from a feeble script. As secretary to a high-minded theatrical agent, Ann is shown masterminding his affairs, settling his domestic problems and using the wisecracks that TV seems to think make up the language of U.S. business. Most televiewers will find the comedy situations every bit as familiar and repetitive as the Lucky Strike commercials...
Though Editor Bacci will consider for publication any subject except politics, his contributors are apparently not yet accustomed to such latitude. For their first appearance in print, most stuck close to familiar academic ground. One scholar wrote about the poetry of Catullus; another about the sorrows of St. Augustine's mother; still another about the various shades of purple in Virgil ("We must tell the cardinals!" exclaimed Pope Pius after reading the article). But in spite of such heavy fare, subscriptions were pouring in at the rate of about two dozen a day-including a daily five...
...last week Dennis' antics had become so popular and struck such familiar chords that a $1 collection of his cartoons (Holt) had sold close to 121,000 copies in less than six months; Cartoonist Ketcham was readying Dennis for a 30-minute TV show; his freckled face was being printed on cocktail napkins, towels, glasses and cookie jars; and many a parent had already begun to warn a misbehaving child: "Don't be like Dennis...