Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the background against which Secretary Acheson last week reported "giant strides" of progress at the Lisbon NATO conference. Such progress reports are familiar milestones of the last five years. They are true, in a way. The free world does move, but the question is whether that movement amounts to anything when measured by 1) the cost of the U.S. effort and 2) the progress of the enemy. Thus measured, the U.S. is taking "giant strides" north on a train that is moving south...
...ballet opened on a simply curtained stage with an eight-girl corps in red-shaded classic tutus, moving in familiar Balanchine patterns-four against four, diagonally across the stage, interweaving. Then Balanchine proved the caliber of his company. He set five ballerinas in a line: Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil Le-Clercq, Diana Adams, Patricia Wilde, Melissa Hayden. Three danseurs nobles
...that when a musician, who is master of many instruments, has a musical theme to express, he can express it as perfectly upon the simple tetrachord of Mercury (in which there are, as we all know, no diatonic intervals whatever) as upon the more elaborate disdiapason (with the familiar four tetrachords and the redundant note) which, I need not remind you, embraces in its simple consonance all the single, double and inverted chords...
...talent for swindling landlubbers. Starting with a race horse with bad legs, he launches a series of doubletalk deals that get him involved with gangsters, saboteurs, ringers and Marie Wilson. The plot, which limps as badly as Groucho's horse, fortunately has room for a number of familiar set pieces: Groucho confounding his Navy commander, Groucho playing a Kentucky colonel, Groucho leering at Marie Wilson. Director Chester Erskine, who also wrote the screenplay, subscribes to the theory that if the action is fast it must be funny. Groucho struggles heroically to prove him right, but doesn't quite...
Lady Possessed (Portland; Republic) resuscitates that familiar figure of movie melodrama: a living person haunted by the spirit of the dead...