Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retorted: Why, I've just come from a country [Finland] where [trade] not only has strings; it's a political noose." Humphrey asked Khrushchev for specific facts began pressing his own statistics on Khrushchev, who shrugged: "I am not expert and there are details I am not familiar with. He promised to bring in Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan later...
...what they were voting against (the old gang), but were now surprised by what they had voted for. Even Charles de Gaulle himself had not wanted the kind of right-wing majority he got. He had insisted on a single-constituency method of voting that was presumed to favor familiar names (principally the Socialists and Radicals) over a grab bag of unknowns styling themselves Gaullists, some of them able, many...
...years since his death, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock has become the nation's most admired art export. Last week Pollock's passionate, familiar dribblings of paint were on view in a London gallery. Judging by the record attendance as well as the reviews, Jack the Dripper had taken England in hand...
Beyond Politics. Around the world the name of Boris Pasternak, until recently familiar to few except fellow poets and literary specialists, has assumed a kind of magic. In U.S. book stores, Zhivago, the No. 1 bestseller, is periodically out of stock; U.S. sales to this week: 344,000 copies. The publisher (Pantheon) has a new printing of 430,000 copies scheduled, and the Book-of-the-Month Club is rushing Zhivago to its subscribers as an alternate choice. It has been translated into 17 languages: the book without a country will shortly span the globe. At least some clandestine copies...
Themes & Variations. In the four slim volumes that Boris Pasternak published between 1914 and 1923 (two chief ones: My Sister Life, Themes and Variations), he developed a telegraphic style, sound effects that are almost totally lost in translation and a unique imagery that made the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Pasternak's Definition of Poetry is actually easier to understand than most of his poems...