Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before long, among the Moslems of Kasba Mechta who had paid for their failure to help the rebels, Olivier Dubos was a familiar figure. He acted as welfare officer, schoolteacher and doctor rolled into one. made a point of showing up in remote villages on market days, alone and unarmed. "In the cause of pacification we have got to take risks." he said...
...tattoo continues, familiar information floods the C. of C.: Milton Caniff is a cartoonist who draws a comic strip about Steve Canyon, a tall, blond, slightly stuffy Air Force aviator. Steve and his buddies will be portrayed in a new show on NBC television this fall. Best of all (boomlay, boomlay, boom) there is a local tie-in: Miss Columbia Mizzou, raffish blonde who shows up intermittently in the strip, is named after the University of Missouri, near which, in Caniff's fable, she once slung hash...
...else could have cried the song with the same blue, bittersweet sadness. No one else could have filled the familiar words with the same heart-heavy longing for rest and ease. So they turned on a phonograph and let Big Bill Broonzy sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at his own funeral...
...cliches of classroom science films -the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...
...chain-reaction revolution in high school physics set off by M.I.T.'s Physical Science Study Committee (TIME, July 29, 1957, et seq.) will touch 12,000 students this fall. Latest link in the reaction: five summer institutes that last week graduated 300 teachers familiar with the M.I.T. committee's radically new theories of physics teaching and able to handle a wide repertoire of new experiments. During the eight-week courses sponsored this summer by the National Science Foundation, the high school teachers suggested changes in the M.I.T. text, enthusiastically accepted the basic idea: lead students to discover physics...