Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dirty lyin' skunk," the man in the black hat snarled. "Reach for them plowhandles an' I'll blow ya in half-pocket-high!" Such scenes of life in the wild but carefully censored West are familiar to every watcher of Zworykin's magic lamp these days. But how many western fans or foes are aware of what goes on behind the scenes? Of horses that make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas...
Instead, the Western diplomats have become resigned to a third choice-a serious bargaining session between Russia and the West. The position papers that are being painstakingly prepared in Washington, Paris and London cover the familiar diplomatic counters-disarmament, disengagement, German unification-but the attitude is not one of simply giving way to Russia on them. If the Soviets really have serious bargaining in mind, they must give at least as much ground as they gain. The juggling by Western planners involves a study of which factors most distress Russia, how much Russia should be prepared...
...Radicals, the Catholic M.R.P.-regained ground. In November's Assembly elections, the power of De Gaulle's name, and disgust with the shortcomings of the old Fourth Republic, had swept the fledgling U.N.R. into office. In local elections, however, Frenchmen are primarily influenced by local issues, familiar faces, and entrenched machines. Accordingly, it was the old hands who did best last week...
...Segovia audience is usually distinguished by its youth and its air of spellbound intensity. Last week, as usual. Segovia played pieces by early, little-known composers, as well as such familiar masters as Bach and Scarlatti, then offered several contemporary works. His six-stringed instrument sounded at times with the shimmer of the harpsichord, at times with the dryly plaintive quality of the lute. Throughout, the instrument's miniature sounds were punctuated with moments of deep, suspenseful silence...
...most loudly acclaimed young violinist to emerge from France since the late Ginette Neveu, who died in a 1949 plane crash. Last week Violinist Ferras turned up in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and from the moment he launched into Brahms's familiar D-Major Concerto, it was clear that he had a blazing, romantic vision and the controlled technique to carry...