Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar deep voice of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh poured out from Radio Teheran one afternoon last week. For 90 minutes the wily old man rambled over the 19 months of Britain-Iranian oil negotiations, then reached his climax: "Iran has done her best, but the British government always obstructed a settlement. They [the British] have thus forced Iran to cut relations with them...
Though all the play's ideas are familiar and many of its situations are inept, it has its interludes of fun; had Shaw but written it 60 years earlier, it would undoubtedly have been said to show promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...
...years since Casey Stengel began managing baseball teams, he has had more than his share of rags with the riches. Bouncing around between the major and minor leagues, Casey has gone through the familiar managerial cycle, sticking with his clubs when they are winning, getting the boot when they are down. Caroming from Worcester to the Toledo Mudhens (one pennant in six seasons) to Brooklyn (three raffish seasons) to Boston (six lean & lowly years) to Milwaukee (a pennant) to Kansas City (seventh place) to Oakland (three playoffs, one pennant), Manager Stengel has usually managed to rebound in the right direction...
...Regiment. Hero Guy Crouchback is a familiar Waugh character in that, dramatically speaking, he is not a hero at all. Like Waugh himself, Guy is a Roman Catholic romantic, but for the rest he is an older version of those earlier Waugh stooge-heroes whose very decency caused them to be trampled underfoot by hemen, clawed apart by harpies, robbed of their rights by double-dealers-and then trounced by Evelyn Waugh into the bargain. World War II finds Guy a dispossessed man in every sense, abandoned by a feckless wife, deprived of spiritual zest by isolation. Waugh is frank...
Dudley has never been short on crusades. Its latest one, however, represents an important change from the familiar cry of full equality. What the commuters want now and should get is an exception to Lamont's 9 p.m. reserve rule...