Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nancy Kelly is more than competent as the less intriguing, more familiar wife; Michael Tolan seems appropriate but not fortunate in the rather lifeless role of the professor's assistant, a role that seems to be forgotten by Huxley at the end of the play. Billy Quinn is a charming young boy, but Nina Reader, who plays his sister, should perhaps be sent back to a toy store. She intrudes on a play that is on the whole an often amusing bit of nearly nothing...
...often argued that the release of people like Leopold removes much of the fear of punishment deterring acts of crime. Anyone at all familiar with the motivations of criminals knows that fear of punishment plays little part in the anticipation of a criminal act. There is no reason to assume that the release of Leopold or of anyone else will have any effect whatsoever on the crime rate...
...Irina B.M. Lynch, instructor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, said that one year's study of Russian would give a student the basic tools of grammar. "He could read scientific material if he was familiar with the subject matter," she declared, "but he would not be prepared for literary reading...
...itself, that the day of the bomber is over, they could win for Communism a cold-war victory over the most powerful armed force ever assembled-an armed force that in the here and now is the free world's only deterrent to major aggression and, in the familiar words of its weather-beaten air men, a loaded pistol pointed squarely at Khrushchev's head...
...Clean" thermonuclear bombs, like clean small boys, do not necessarily stay clean for long. The most familiar kind of radioactive fallout comes from the fission of plutonium or uranium 235, and from the so-called clean bombs that the U.S. Government has announced contain only small amounts of these troublemaking substances. The bulk of the bomb's bang comes from fusion of hydrogen, which creates no fission products...