Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pondering the relation of modern man to his soul, he is apt to be found sailing a small ketch on the Lake of Zurich, or reading an endless chain of violent detective stories, sometimes at the rate of one a day. Though his large, snow-peaked figure is a familiar sight in and around Zurich, very few of his fellow citizens have the slightest idea who he is, and most of them think of him vaguely as a pleasant old man who likes people and dogs. Dr. Jung, in approaching a dog, will pat its head and observe gravely that...
...Familiar Look. On the other hand, he never bothered to read the attacks on him in the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times because its city editor "has refused to say whether he was one of the leading Communists in the county"-a charge McCarthy has made before. (City Editor Cedric Parker has repeatedly denied that he is a Communist...
Ferguson next showed McCarthy an editorial attacking him from the Washington Post (circ. 191,000). Had he read it? "It looks rather familiar," McCarthy answered. "I read substantially the same editorials either in the Daily Worker or the Washington Post." The judge interrupted to ask him: "Are you confused between these two papers?" Answered McCarthy: "They parallel each other pretty closely." How about the Christian Science Monitor, asked Ferguson, which has also criticized him? Is that "a left-wing smear paper" too? Replied McCarthy: "I can't answer...
Crosby, complete with his Hollywood toupee, was as pleasantly relaxed and as glibly polysyllabic on TV as he is on radio and in the movies. He traded familiar insults with Bob Hope; exchanged small talk with Guest Dorothy Lamour; moaned in true TV-Comic fashion whenever the studio audience seemed lukewarm, and crooned such songs as Home on the Range. When the Telethon ended its allnight, two-network (CBS and NBC), stand, Hope, Crosby and friends had collected pledges for more than $1,000,000. Crosby also seems assured of a lively and profitable TV career whenever he wants...
...friends subscribed more money. He collected a crew consisting partly of local fishermen, partly of hard-boiled seadogs, whose language often depended solely upon "all the monosyllables . . . used in turn, as nouns, adjectives and adverbs." Would-be adventurers clamored to join the project; their letters often told an old familiar story...