Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California Senate race, where 49-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas was finding it hard going (see above), Barkley didn't seem very helpful. To Republican charges that she had left a Communist-line voting record in the House, he replied: "I'm not familiar with all of Mrs. Douglas' votes. I'm quite sure [she] voted her conscientious convictions. The mere fact that she voted the same as Marcantonio I don't regard as of any significance." Then, somewhat confusingly, he added: "The Senate could stand another dose of brains and beauty. Margaret...
...haggard figures, wearing their familiar difficult smiles, once more made the long walk up the stone steps to the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square. There, with his wife always at his side, Alger Hiss had gone through two of the most thoroughly publicized trials in U.S. history, for a perjury which involved past espionage. Last week the Hisses appeared in court again, this time to hear his lawyer argue the appeal from the five-year prison sentence Hiss got last January...
...trouble with Legend of Sarah is not just that the pattern is familiar but that like the pattern in wallpaper it endlessly repeats itself. Sarah starts with lovers scrapping and they continue to scrap, at ten-minute intervals, for the rest of the play. Betweenwhiles, the genteel agitation over the ancestress could be excused its lack of drama if it ever had any real gaiety as satire. The dogged humor of the play is not helped by the relentless vivacity of the production...
...Someone familiar with Harvard's present program would notice Brandeis' General Education system in particular. The catalogue reads: "All matriculated students must complete the prescribed work in the General Education curriculum, comprising the two year sequences in the Social Sciences, the Humanities and the Sciences." And a College man would also notice: "All matriculated students must be able to express their ideas effectively in English . . . (This) Committee will administer an English proficiency examination . . . Students not exempt will be required to take English Composition...
...Face Is Familiar. In Cincinnati, Edgar Fred Whitaker, wanted on charges of robbery and jailbreaking, was nabbed by FBI agents as he stood in the Federal Building looking at his own picture among the "Wanted" posters...