Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern, Judy Garland or Ethel Merman. The truth is that she sounds occasional echoes of all of them. But she also has a dead-sure sense of phrasing all her own and a warm-tinted, open voice which casts its own mellow glow over the familiar lyrics she handles...
Before T (for test) time, all eyes look for the now familiar telltale signs: the radar search dish on the Cape begins rotating; crash boats put out to sea; the yellow warning spheres are hoisted atop the 90-ft. poles; the eight massive service towers and gantries clank and clatter. The tips of the missiles are often visible on the skyline. "Conducting tests on the Cape," said one missileman, "is like performing research in a fish bowl...
Slushy Beat. Criticism from the local inhabitants had died to a few back-terrace whispers (Sponsor Mrs. Louis Lorillard characterized the festival's early opponents as "not socially secure."). In fact the only really surprising sound at last week's festival came not from the familiar names but from a 28-piece band whose performers averaged only 14 years...
...words and music to a parable he once heard in his father's church. The song: Straighten Up and Fly Right. Though he sold it outright for $50, it led to his first Capitol Records disk and helped make his voice one of the most familiar in the land...
What the Mirror Shows. In the funny and sad love stories, the summer dresses seem to have faded a little. Then We Were Three flattens its triangle in the familiar way, with one of the lovers left out in the cold; In the French Style contains the despair of the aging bohemian as his last and best mistress takes refuge in marriage; Voyage Out, Voyage Home brings some fresh insights to that sturdy chestnut, the doomed romance between a healthy lover and a tubercular...