Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think TIME goofed. Ed's right ear is much more familiar...
...Pitch. As usual, in the familiar one-two punch of Soviet diplomacy, threats were accompanied by the offer of "peace." Khrushchev snarled a warning at Turkey (see below), tossed a few ominous remarks in the direction of West Germany ("Adenauer will not be able to start things the way Hitler did''), growled at the U.S. itself: "If a war should break out . . . socialism will live on while capitalism will not remain...
Oyako don-buri with misoshiri soup is usually very good," my new friend advised. "And reasonable." Reasonable was four dollars. Looking for something vaguely familiar, I decided on sukiyaki with chicken...
...spontaneity of the line made most of the audience either laugh or applaud. And with good reason. The triumph of Chayefsky realism lives in her response. The author's lines and scenes are so full of recognizable truths, of familiar details, of realism, that the audience has no trouble at all entering his play. This is an impressive skill. I wonder, though, whether the realism and the truths are not mostly too small to make powerful theater...
...maintain the plumbing in the nation's 28 million homes, the wrench-wielding mechanic who administers to the health of the nation's 50 million autos, its 15 million power lawnmowers, its 375 million electric appliances. "They" is the U.S. Repairman in all his disguises-the familiar Mr. Fixit of fact and financial friction, the man everyone knows-assiduously courted, ardently denounced, universally accepted as the indispensable man of the gadget-ridden American home...