Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Realism? When it came to what to do about the sorry state of the world, the delegates admitted that they had "no simple recipes," fell back on such familiar churchman's cliches as "creative adjustment and accommodation," "painstaking, patient negotiation, preferably through a strengthened and expanded United Nations," and "a stronger measure of moral realism...
Aside from its proud snowcap, the Mt. Evans summit boasts the Inter-University High Altitude Laboratory. There, climbers found a familiar piece of equipment: a massive, steel low-pressure chamber. Dr. Balke wanted to know whether his conditioned volunteers would be as subject to the bends and the chokes (painful, potentially fatal disorders caused by nitrogen bubbling out of solution in the blood) as a man zooming up from sea level...
...spread around," Actor Ford is there a moment later to lament: "Oh for the days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl: "I'm six foot two and a half tall; I've got to start some time." Replies Robert Morse, his shy fellow clerk: "I'm five foot five, so it isn't so urgent for me." Brought...
Climactic Scene. Most familiar scene to non-Mormons was Christ's crucifixion -after which, according to the Mormons, he came to America and organized his true Christian church among the Nephites (Scene XIII), who flourished for centuries before falling into wicked ways themselves and being destroyed in battle by the Lamanites. Mormon was a Nephite prophet who set down this history and God's will for the future upon golden tablets and entrusted them to his son Moroni, who buried them in the Hill Cumorah...
Gradually a corporal's guard of regulars formed, including gifted Pianist Jose Melis, suave Announcer Hugh Downs and Singer Betty Johnson, who all served as Paar's foils. The regulars became as familiar as comic-strip characters. Leading characters at present : Genevieve, French singer with a haphazard haircut and accent to match, and an oldtime comedian named Cliff Arquette, with drooping pants and rustic repartee. Despite her sophisticated air, it is naively charming Genevieve who represents innocence on the show and Cliff, despite his cornball appearance, whose trigger-quick ad libs speak for sophistication. But the biggest character...