Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands"?), against Britain and France ("for trying to run out on us"). Three Cabots, a Coolidge and a Lowell joined in a group telegram to Truman and Acheson asking arbitration and concessions to the Communists. There were peeved cracks about MacArthur's misconstrued "home by Christmas" remarks-the familiar fate of a general in a jam and a public caught by surprise. There was outspoken criticism of the Administration. Said an Iowa filling-station operator: "They piddled around and piddled around. I wonder what the hell they were thinking about...
...gangs jump the gun and attack the whites on their own ground, an autopsy proves the doctor innocent. Biddle is unconvinced. This stalemate is the point, and the logical climax, of the film. As the action continues, with Biddle's vendetta against the doctor, the characters resolve into more familiar type-patterns: the man who hates Negroes because he himself was involved, the doctor who must treat the man he hates. But the ending is still inconclusive. The doctor has won his life, others have died, but nothing has been changed...
None of the Overseers is too familiar with the present University from the students' viewpoint. The most recent alumnus on the Board--the only one ever to live in one of the seven Houses--is Dr. W. Barry Wood, Jr. '32, a Crimson football great. The oldest graduate on the Overseers is the retired director of the Fogg Mucsum, Edward W. Forbes...
These hazards of Soviet life are familiar to our Russian Desk. Although Ehlers was graduated from Princeton in 1931 with a physics degree, he decided not to pursue the subject ("It's too lonesome a job"). Instead, he became a reporter for the Philadelphia Record. During his 15 years as a newspaperman, he specialized in economics, labor and world communism. He came to TIME two years ago from the New York Herald Tribune. Vishniak was born and educated in Moscow, where he became a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. After the Bolshevik revolution he fled to France...
...hand were many familiar faces, some soon to be seen around the halls of Congress no more. Big, bronzed lame-duck Scott Lucas, after a visit to the White House, went through the motions of majority leader. His gear was all packed. He will be at home in Havana, Ill. after Jan. 3, practicing law. Pennsylvania's Francis J. Myers, the majority whip, was equally relaxed: he will soon be a Philadelphia lawyer again...