Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conception of the West is still that he propounded in the June issue of Harper's: the West is the Desert. Anybody at all familiar with the West is certainly aware of the importance of the Desert in shaping the lives of the inhabitants of the region, but to say the Desert is the only physical characteristic of the West is a gross over-simplification. Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, has had his conception of the West shaped by the Great Plains, which served as the title of his greatest book...
Maurice Chevalier can still romp through the part of the French lover. His hair is getting thin, and he doesn't show too well in closeups, but these are minor objections. His enthusiasm for this familiar role seems undiminished, his girls are as beautiful as ever, and My Seven Little Sins has the great virtue of not taking itself too seriously...
...historical growth of America, spreading with the railroad into the everyday existence of people everywhere. Few early observers were friendly toward this snorting monster; they found it smelly, noisy, and even dangerous to the established horse and buggy order. But, as time went on, the steam engine became a familiar and even nostalgic item on the national scene...
...familiar plight of painters and writers in seeking recognition is traditionally surpassed only by poets and sculptors, those artists who perpetually face the problem of addressing an extremely limited audience. And so, Aristide Maillol, Ernst Barlach and Gerhard Marcks, all noted for their sculpture, have translated their sculptural conception of form and line into two dimensions via the highly communicable medium of graphic...
...familiar enough warning, but seldom had it been sounded with greater urgency. The cost of accommodating the college population of the future will be so high, said President Lee A. DuBridge of Caltech last week, that the American people will either have to put up more money−or shut up about sending their kids to college...