Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing preference for wine can be taken as further evidence of commonsensical drinking. Light wine with meals is a familiar European custom that is taking hold in the U.S. Since 1955, consumption of table wines has nearly doubled, to 78.6 million gallons a year. Five years ago, restaurant customers in Chicago seldom bought wine. Now it is common, and they are specifying color, brand, region, year-even ordering Grands Echezeaux and pronouncing it right...
Taught mostly at the graduate level, the programs require students to be as familiar with secular writing as sacred. At the Methodists' Emory University in Atlanta, the first-year curriculum includes a study of drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare; next spring, the university's celebrated Christian atheist, Thomas Altizer, will lecture on the theological and artistic expression of nihilism, concentrating on Baudelaire, Kazantzakis and Nietzsche...
...more surprising that Michael Redgrave and Alec Guinness should both have rejected the proffered male lead. Unusual also was the fact that critics were barred from attending the first two weeks of a limited Siweek run. Most of the reviewers, moreover, were nonplused by a play that lacked the familiar shape and sound of a Williams drama. "Seldom, even in the half-light of the theater, have I seen an audience as patently perplexed as this one," wrote Herbert Kretzmer of the Daily Express. "It would need a psychoanalyst-and preferably Tennessee Williams' own-to offer a rational interpretation...
...scenes come from schools in central India and the Punjab Hills, but the daring use of mauve, chartreuse, and orange, and the asymetrical balance are pleasantly familiar to Western eyes...
...final Harvard goal was the result of the already familiar Chris Gurry charge. The sophomore defenseman evaded three checks along the right boards, circled the Bruin cage, and left the puck in the crease for Barry Johnson to ram home...