Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American people may find it hard to believe that the U.S. is winning the war in Viet Nam. They have, after all, been ladled too many over-sanguine assurances in the past, only to be confronted later with the familiar due bills of heavier manpower commitments, steeper costs and higher casualties. Nonetheless, one of the most exhaustive inquiries into the status of the conflict yet compiled offers considerable evidence that the weight of U.S. power, 21 years after the big build-up began, is beginning to make itself felt. Within the next 18 months or so, White House officials maintain...
...crowd of more than 1,000 with his customary oxymoronic oratory, advising his listeners that the U.S. has 13 concentration camps where it plans to put Negroes and that "America gave us a black astronaut just so's they could lose that nigger in space." Then came the familiar peroration: "Stop singing and start swinging, chump. Get a gun." As the crowd broke up, a Negro girl skipped down the street happily chanting "We're going to have a riot, we're going to have a riot...
...yearning little girls are standard fixtures in hardscrabble literature. Most of them, like little Clara Walpole, scheme and claw their way up from a knockabout childhood and finally wear silk dresses and live in the biggest house for miles around. But if Clara seems to be a drearily familiar type, there is a magical naturalistic quality in this book that makes her one of the most pathetically provocative literary heroines of the year...
...leads nowhere: "It is here and now that we are called to learn, to work, to love, to enjoy-and to grow. There is in this view of things every motivation for moving to new plateaus of freedom and effectiveness, for becoming all we can become, while in these familiar surroundings. One world at a time...
...substance that was supposed to open the doors to a luminous new world of the mind, has instead opened the minds of medical researchers to a dark world of hitherto unsuspected dangers in connection with many drugs. It now appears that not only LSD, but also other, more familiar drugs may damage the human reproductive mechanism by causing breaks or other abnormalities in the chromosomes. A woman with such chromosomal dam age may have a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth, or her child may be deformed, or develop a fatal anemia...