Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin's greatest victories have been won in the United States" he cried while waving his forefinger like a baton. "Poland was lost in Washington, D.C. by Alger Hiss. China was lost in our nation's capitol." These charges are familiar, but Budenz supported them in a unique way. He grabbed a thin red volume from somewhere and read off a eulogy to Stalin by the Chinese Delegation to the Seventh International. "Strange words aren't they," said Budenz, "coming from Asia-for-the-Asiatics like Owen J. Lattimore...
...Music is different from the other arts because it moves in time," G. Wallace Woodworth '24, Professor of Music, believes. "Sounds pass the listener with such rapidity that the only way to really become familiar with a piece of music is to hear it over and over again...
...diners began to crowd in, the orchestra--a trumpeter, drummer, pianist, and an accordian player--accompanied their progress with some thumpy renditions of familiar tunes. One of the selections was the "Donkey Serenade," but the Republicans did not seem to notice this. But at 7:14 the head table of dignatories began to march in, and to the tune of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here," Charles Francis Adams, Sinclair Weeks, Senators Saltonstall and Lodge, Robert Montgomery, and Senator Richard M. Nixon of California, among others, took their places...
...March by Mrs. Herman Thornton, a lively young brunette who has one deaf child herself. Ten sets of parents answered her invitation, but only one teacher, Mrs. Grace Covey, a motherly looking woman in her 50s who had come to Phoenix to rest and write poetry. It was a familiar problem in speech instruction: too many deaf children and not enough professional teachers to tutor them individually...
...text of Life in America proposes no striking or revolutionary ideas about U.S. history. Author Davidson has been content to follow the familiar trails hacked out by earlier social historians and to fill in his conventional account with homely details. Volume I is concerned mainly with the way Americans have worked, and it covers everything from slave-tended tobacco growing in the colonial South to New England whaling and Detroit assembly lines. Volume II focuses on manners and styles of life: steamboating on the Mississippi, immigrant ways in the big city slums, the exciting new society diversions of the waltz...