Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program for a college orchestra always presents a problem that is rarely solved better than it was Sunday night. It is ridiculous for students to play the familiar symphonic items that everyone has heard performed by experts. But in the search for rare works college orchestras usually come up with esoteric pieces that attract...
...Bernardino, Calif., Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 81, took a now-familiar pose (see cut) which helps keep him in trim. Then he hurried east to appear in NBC's TV show called Life Begins At 80, where he said he might stand on his head again ("It's good for the digestion") or else do a fast Russian kazachek ("It keeps my knees supple...
...broken leg; one eyelid had virtually been torn away. Gasoline dripped steadily. He called reassurance to the living (seven were dead), sent some of the walking injured for help, and yelled warnings against lighting matches. When he got to a hospital, nine hours after the crash, he felt a familiar languor-what he calls the "warm, soft sensation of death...
...Unsold Rug. The zoo-odd Italians, including Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had gathered to hear Zellerbach speak at a luncheon celebrating the second anniversary of the Marshall Plan, expected only a good meal and some of the pleasantly flattering remarks customary on such occasions. The familiar praise, however, was concentrated at the beginning of the speech. After that, Zellerbach's clipped, nasal voice began to tick off in unusual fashion some of the things that he thought were wrong with Italy...
English. Maurois skillfully retells the familiar story of the foppish, incredibly hypochondriac man, who, in a cork-lined, fumigated bedroom, wrote a mordant masterpiece about the decay of French society. Maurois heavily emphasizes the weaknesses in Proust's character-his dependence on his mother, his excessive need to be sure of the admiration of his friends, his failure to establish a normal love life, his toadying to decadent aristocrats. This Proust is a very sick man, but did his sickness dictate Remembrance of Things Past...