Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cackle & Croak. With his affectionate patience, Dr. Lorenz has become familiar with the passions of that monogamous little fish, the cichlid. He knows the wild ecstasies of the Siamese fighting fish and the stickleback. He can spell out the intricate class consciousness of jackdaw society, for he has seen a low-ranking female mate with a high-ranking male and assume his place in the social order...
...walls. He scurries along the corridors, whisks around the turns and gets to the cheese in twelve to 15 seconds. If he starts at a part of the maze that he did not explore on his first trip, he uses his trial & error method until he reaches a familiar part. Then he dashes for the cheese with confident precision...
...Hsieh Ho's six standards, by which Chinese painting was judged: 1) rhythmic vitality, 2) anatomical structure, 3) conformity with nature, 4) suitability of coloring, 5) artistic grouping, 6) copying of classical masterpieces. In striving to meet these requirements, even the greatest of Ming painters seldom departed from familiar themes; but they achieved such happy variations as scholarly Shen Chou's pink study of spring (see cut), and they more than made up in refinement what they lacked in fire...
This is admittedly a progressive college. Unlike most such institutions, its students do not wince when tagged with that familiar and controversial label. Bennington girls are proud of the way they live and the way they learn...
...Familiar Manner. In Indianapolis, Store Clerk Mrs. Hazel Allen was robbed three times in two weeks by the same man, protested: "He walks in here like he owned the place...