Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piqued Editor Martin pecked back at the Columnist Brothers Alsop. "For light relief," he scoffed in the New Statesman, "you ought to read [them]. Joseph Alsop is a familiar figure in this country. He eats and talks in labour circles, describing himself as a socialist. I often wonder whether he makes the same proud claim in Washington. His brother Stewart [says that] ... no one in America really wants war . . . That some people want war, however, is very clear indeed from the Alsop brothers' own column, which went so far the other day as to say that the World...
...patients from churches or through the special midday services which he conducts for those who are troubled in spirit. Both brothers, however, look upon the church setting as an important element in their work. Reasons: 1) it gives added authority to the therapist; 2) it provides a familiar atmosphere "of protection, love and forgiveness"; 3) it reduces the patient's fear of psychology as something to do with the "abnormal" or "insane"; 4) it unites the group...
...broad outline, the shape of China's Red army has become familiar to Pentagon observers and others. Altogether, Communist armed forces number about 5,000,000. More than 2,000,000 men serve in the regular army; the remainder are local militia and auxiliary troops...
...Mikado-though it seems rather like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations set to hurdy-gurdy tunes*-still holds up. Almost all of Gilbert's lyrics are beyond cavil, and the best of them are beyond praise, while Sullivan's music has more to boast of than a string of lively tunes. The first-act finale of The Mikado is not less a triumph of operatic brio for being also intended as a travesty...
...This familiar classified ad in the Washington News sent a despondent man to the phone in the dead of night. To the woman's voice that answered, he said: "I was intending to commit suicide tonight, and a friend told me to call you first." The warm voice at the other end began to pray. After a bit of prayer and a blessing, the would-be suicide felt unaccountably better. He mumbled his thanks and hung...