Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange" system nations pay for most of their global commerce in gold or dollars, and the U.S. is pledged to sell its gold bullion for any paper dollars that foreign central bankers turn in. Moreover, the U.S. guarantees the official price at $35 an ounce. Because of its now familiar balance of payments deficits, the U.S. has papered the world with its dollars, creating plenty of calls on the nation's gold stock. Since 1957, U.S. gold reserves have declined by almost half, to less than $12 billion, and foreign claims on U.S. gold have doubled, to $31.2 billion...
Like the other Clark victories, this one was scored in a Lotus, one of those creations of British Designer Colin Chapman that have made such proud marques as Ferrari and Maserati alsorans on the Grand Prix circuit. In place of the familiar old Coventry Climax engine (originally designed to power a fire-engine water pump), the Lotus 49 boasts a brand-new V-8 Ford-Cosworth engine that may well give Ford a Grand Prix championship to go with the victories it has already won at Indianapolis, Le Mans and on the stock-car circuit. Constructed mainly of aluminum, with...
Poetry & Prophecy. All this is a long way from the steamy atmosphere of the familiar Dylan outcry, and Dylan's own musical style has kept pace with his growing control over poetic expression. His melodic style has deepened; the bluesy Dear Landlord (in which Dylan accompanies himself on a tinny barroom piano) is a subtle, intense, spacious tune. Moreover, there are times when he abandons his customary foghorn speech-song in favor of something identifiable as singing...
...here"-pointing to a page black with notes from the Quartet, written when Brahms was 28-"and how, later on, the single, simple notes can sing alone"-a pass at the misty, half-muttering Intermezzo in E Flat Minor of 31 years later. "My concert programs are full of familiar pieces, comfortable like old shoes, but there, too, I try each time to make them a little better...
...explain further, for the trade that I am involved in, even though it is the second oldest profession known to man, is not one with which the average person is familiar. Palmistry is one of several so-called psychic sciences which deal with man, his personality, and his future. Astrology, for example, is an ancient and widely acknowledged "science" which uses stars and different times of the year to foretell what is in store for the individual. Another common form of fortune-telling is cards, either the common variety or Tarot cards, which originated in Israel. Tea-leaves are read...