Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cosmic questions, Mr. Capote plays the famous writer's familiar con-game. To hear the successful writer tell it, they've never heard of Jung or symbols or aesthetic theories, and they profess an admirable ignorance when confronted with such things. "I am merely trying to tell a story in the best way I can," said Capote. "Writers don't think consciously about symbols. I doubt whether Kafka ever thought about the symbolic significances of his stories. He was just trying to tell a story...
...weekend opened with Comic Pianist Victor Borge, whose show was the familiar, funny and overlong romp. It closed with admirably durable Rosalind Russell once again going through the invigorating setting-up exercises of Wonderful Town. CBS gave it two hours, and the TV version of the Broadway musical turned out to be just as whackily brilliant as the original. When the camera zoomed in on Roz and Sister Eileen (Jacquelyn McKeever), huddled in their virginal Manhattan bed and wailing Why Did I Ever Leave Ohio?, the old Town never seemed more wonderful...
When Smiths was founded three years ago as the juvenile annex of Borocourt (mental) Hospital, its regular staff was soon plagued with a familiar problem. Ten skilled (and overworked) nurses were unable to get really close to the hospital's 40 seriously disturbed children. Said Borocourt's physician-superintendent, Dr. Gerald O'Gorman: "If we're very lucky, we may get the children to form an attachment to an animal-but what is vitally needed is relationship with a human being...
...there, quite openly, for its basic characters and plot. Since many Hamlets of one kind or another preceded Shakespeare's, it is not out of line that others should follow it; after all, it is for being the most fascinating of English plays that Hamlet remains the most familiar...
...only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...