Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the state of modern man. Four prisoners of an unidentified war are locked up in a church and bunk down for a restless night. Most of the action consists of their separate dreams, each one involving the others, a series of merging playlets stretched on the frames of familiar Bible stories (Cain and Abel, David and Absalom, Abraham and Isaac...
Some professors of economics may share the lady's feelings, when they approach such Goodwin articles as "The Multiplier as Matrix," ("in which I generalize Keynes' 'General Theory'"), or "Secular and Cyclical Aspects of the Multiplier and Accelerator." In vain they look for things familiar in a maze of matrices, mechanisms, and differential equations. The uninitiated must turn skeptic, or search not scattered passages written, for backward readers, in English...
...accused in the privacy of an NKVD cellar. But the Chinese Communists have put on a public spectacle of death which the 20th Century has not witnessed since the Russian Revolution in 1917. Since the Red Terror began in China two months ago, the scene had become so familiar from a dozen broadcasts and newspaper stories that its enormity had almost been lost. Last week, when the terror hit Shanghai, after having engulfed Canton (TIME, May 7) and other cities, the scene was re-enacted, and blatantly broadcast by Communist radio and news services...
Impressive as the overall Russian performance was, it was greeted with a shrug by one European team coach, familiar with the U.S.'s razzle-dazzle style of play. Said he, lumping the pride of Russia in a class with Slippery Rock Teachers': "Kentucky would take them by 30 points...
Since assigned material in G.E. courses will serve as "outside reading" in the composition course, instructors will have to be familiar with at least one G.E. subject. Some G.E. section men may be qualified to teach composition. But whatever the case, the development of writing skills must not be sacrificed for a discussion of ideas. Sectioning should be delayed until all freshmen have decided which G.E. course they wish to enter. Then they can apply for a section which will base its reading and discussions on subjects in Humanities 2 or Social Sciences 1, etc. This coordination of courses will...