Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson called no witnesses, but spent all the time allotted to his side on a familiar argument: the Wisdom forces were Democratic interlopers...
Russia, of course, wanted no such thing. Soviet Delegate Jacob Malik used all the familiar stalling tactics-he demanded priority for an entirely different subject (new U.N. members) and was voted down; he insisted that representatives of Red China and North Korea be invited into the debate, and got voted down again. Then he strolled out to the delegates' lounge while the Council discussed the U.S. proposal...
From Bucharest last week came another of those grimly familiar communiques out of the Land of Darkness at Noon: "Ana Pauker has been relieved of her functions by the Presidium of the National Assembly." And so another Cominformist bit the dust. Five years ago, 18 Communist big shots gathered somewhere in Poland "to reorganize the general staff of the world revolution." Of these 18, two have been executed, two excommunicated; two have risen higher in favor, at least three, and possibly five, have been purged. Moreover, the leadership of every one of the six principal satellites in the Cominform...
...radio days, was urbane, acid Clifton Fadiman. Sitting on the panel were the old experts, John Kieran and Franklin P. Adams, and, as guest member of the panel, Author James (South Pacific) Michener (missing: wiseacre Pianist Oscar Levant, who now lives in California). After the familiar cockcrow and the challenge to "Wake up, America, time to stump the experts!" Video Veteran Fadiman (CBS's This Is Show Business) tried hard to settle his team into the old fluid pace of the radio series...
...cadged and thieved, betrayed his accomplices, married a trusting farm girl without telling her about his past. When he was put away, he kept trying to escape; but in an honest moment he had to admit that he felt at home in the asylum. "The walls seemed as familiar...as the bottom of his pocket...