Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five cadets will become familiar with the Air-Force and its various operations functions, particularly the aircraft and the aircrew. It is planned to have them prepare flight plans, take Link trainer flights. Study meteorology, learn control tower operation, and actually handle the controls of a plane in flight...
...ploy usually works since audiences enjoy melodrama. Change the century's villain from a landlord to the communists, the hero from a farm boy to the F.B.I., the issue from this month's rent to atom bomb secrets, and a skillful director can guide unknown actors toward familiar outcomes to the satisfaction of everyone involved. Jerry Hooper is one skillful director...
Then came the payoff. In Amsterdam last week, Albert Besnard, a naval affairs editor, of the daily Algemeen Handelsblad, read Le Monde's "document" and thought it had a vaguely familiar ring. Digging into his closet, Besnard found some old copies of the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. In the September 1950 issue he found an article by Commander Anthony Talerico, U.S.N., entitled "Sea of Decision." Almost word for word, many parts of it were identical with the so-called "Fechteter report." Instead of being a state paper, the arguments were the hazy theorizing of an unknown junior...
...Dailey plays the part of Dean, with Joanne Dru as his patient wife. Dailey does justice to the role of the former Cardinal Pitcher, especially in his slaughter of the English language, so familiar to Dizzy's fans. Joanne Dru's portrayal of the film, understanding, educated wife is an excellent contrast to her child-like, over-confident, ignorant partner...
After a somewhat colorless cantata by Buxtchude, the audience found itself four centuries after Machaut and finally on more familiar ground with Bach's cantata No. 32, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen. The performance, featuring two excellent soloists, Jean Lunn, soprano, and Vincent Allison, baritone, was smooth and often moving. Violinist Helena Pappenheimer and oboeist Robert Freeman also deserve special commendation for their rendition of the instrumental obbligatos...