Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next was another familiar work, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, giving the ringers a chance to display the virtuosity for which they are so justly famous. Following this came one of the group's specialties, a group of Russian Folk songs, selected from The Fireside Book of Siberian Laments, an anthology which is second only to Bach's Clavieruebung in the ranks of the great musical collections. The ringers were generous enough to perform seven, the last in response to demands for an encore telephoned in during the intermission. It is hard to choose a favorite from among...
Even without a program, theatergoers would have had no trouble figuring out where they were. The scene was clearly the familiar slum section of Williamsburg, Tenn., with its long rows of dusty souls and crumbling emotions tilting crazily against a dusky sky. But there had been changes. In Period of Adjustment, which opened last week at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse, Playwright Tennessee Williams repaired no cracking masonry in his familiar dramatic neighborhood, but at least he slapped on a coat of whitewash...
Oddly, the two most familiar of Dr. Speert's great names are among the earliest and latest: Gabriele Falloppio (circa 1523-62), who vividly described the oviduct as uteri tuba, or trumpet of the uterus, and George Nicholas Papanicolaou, 75, whose technique for detecting early cancer by smearing vaginal secretions on glass slides for microscopic study of cells has become, since 1943, standard procedure in thousands of doctors' offices...
...Despite the grisly finish, Novelist Gary tells Lady L.'s story as slickly and amusingly as if it were an effortless potboiler between more serious efforts-which for him it probably is. But underneath the fun it is also plain that Gary is taking some familiar types for a humiliating ride-all those who love humanity so much that they cannot love people, who can give everything to a cause except their hearts...
Crisis of Faith. Snow's novel follows the familiar pattern of a pietistic tract-vocation, doubts, doubts resolved, ordination, temptation, temptation defeated, final serenity of soul. Its hero and narrator is Arthur Miles, only son of a poor, Nonconformist family, who finds his vocation for science by reading H. G. Wells and looking at the evening star through a toy telescope. By arduously won scholarships, he finds himself at King's College, London, peering at crystals and within reach of the Royal Society ("my Mecca and my Westminster and my Rome"). A vision of sanctity comes to Miles...