Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JUST a year ago, when the boyish face of Jordan's King Hussein first appeared on TIME'S cover, TIME noted that "to young King Hussein the complex intrigues of Araby are as familiar as baseball statistics to a U.S. teenager. The Hashemites have found intrigue a matter of simple survival amidst ambitious rivals." The rivals are still there; so is the intrigue. But the boy is now a man-of 21. See The Education of a King (FOREIGN NEWS) for how Hussein tackled his man-sized...
...newsmen on the White House beat, Augusta in the midst of a Jordanian crisis seemed to be the wrong place for major decisions of state. Isolated both from President Eisenhower and from familiar White House sources, they groused to one another that Ike's place during a new Middle East flare-up was in Washington, not Georgia. At the White House the President would have been available for National Security Council briefings, in closer touch with diplomatic and military aides, in a position to contribute to the give-and-take of policymaking. Countering this was an obvious accomplishment: from...
...undefeated varsity track team finds itself in a familiar position, that of underdog against a team it had beaten in the indoor Heptagonals. On the basis of performances this season, Cornell must be favored in the triangular meet at Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon. Host Penn is rated a poor third...
...best wishes to the International Student Center, where he meets more students from foreign countries. He is shown courtesy and is an object of interest, but there is no organized effort to help him integrate into the Harvard community and feel at home here, or to make him familiar with the customs and attitudes of the country he is studying in. There has long been a need for a channel of contact with American fellow students of similar academic and extra-curricular interests...
Again he takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...