Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launching vehicle that put it there was a special, four-stage version of the Army's test rocket, the Jupiter-C. Its first stage, which contributed most of the push into space, was the familiar, well-tested Redstone, fitted for the occasion with slightly longer fuel tanks, and burning a hydrazine-based, exotic fuel called Hydyne, which gave more thrust than its motor's usual diet of alcohol. Stuck on its nose was an awkward-looking, cylindrical "bucket" mounted on a bearing so that it could be spun, and containing a cluster of 14 small, solid-fuel rockets...
...love with Anatol, they announce their engagement, and pregnant Erika rushes out into the bitter, stormy night. Yet death and destruction are sidetracked. Though Erika has a miscarriage, she survives her night in the snow; Anatol and the unsuspecting Vanessa depart for a new life in Paris. In a familiar living-death type of ending (recalling Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra and Henry James's Washington Square), the big house is shut again, the mirrors are covered once more, and Erika sits brooding before the fire: "Now it is my turn to wait...
...short arms through the pyrotechnic bowings the music called for. But when he started to play Brahms's Violin Concerto, he proved that, like the other Soviet soloists who have visited the U.S. since the war, he had all the technique he needed and some to spare. The familiar music poured from his bow in purling, honey-sweet ribbons of sound. His inflections were a marvel of etched sensitivity, his pianissimos feathery light, his fortissimos bold and clear, with no hint of blurring. Kogan played the concerto with no apparent effort, smiled shyly to a thunderous ovation, which brought...
...Kraus was familiar with this effect, so when Sputnik I took to space, he went after it, antenna pointing like a hunter zeroing in on a duck. The satellite, moving at near meteor speed, and much bigger than common meteors, performed magnificently, leaving an ionized trail at each night passage. The trail reflected the time signal strongly for as much as a minute. The bursts of reflected waves came from just the right places and at just the right times to fit the satellite's slowly shifting orbit...
...Texas-born William Humphrey, 33, has learned his lesson early. Alongside a fine book of short stories (The Last Husband and Other Stories), he can now place a first novel that shows how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Home from the Hill tells a story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip and to a fairly high fictional level is Author Humphrey's knack for turning the feelings and motives of his characters this way and that, until each has taken an unshakable hold on the reader's interest...