Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort was grist for Hanoi's propaganda mills and inviting him to Saigon-which he has yet to visit. Fulbright, however, seemed fully occupied in Washington with the latest round in the hearings on Viet Nam before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sessions followed a familiar pattern. Retired General James Gavin, who last year urged the U.S. to retreat into coastal enclaves, now urged an unconditional halt to the bombing. Historian Henry Steele Commager accused the U.S. of "a double standard" in demanding an end to North Viet Nam's infiltration while it maintains its own "infiltration...
Punji sticks bloomed like lethal lotus on every side, and bunkers by the dozen thrust from the sand dunes as the Marine company moved through the brush 14 miles northwest of Hué. The territory was familiar ground to the one civilian with the Marines: stout, cheerful Bernard Fall, who, by his books and visits to the country, had made himself the best-known international commentator on Viet...
...much background scenery but foreground commentary, much of it highly personal. The curtain opened on a great swirling storm of colors, which, as the massive backdrops rose and fell through 16 scenes, rolled across the footlights in rainbow waves. And awash in it all were the familiar Chagall symbols: floating maidens, topsy-turvy trees, horned animals, bursting suns and moons, and all manner of creepy crawlers and little winged things...
...some visitors, the trap door and the glass wall are the real symbols of Hugh Hefner's achievement. Bacchanalia with Pepsi. Orgies with popcorn. And 24 girls?count 'em, 24?living right overhead! Not to mention all those mechanical reassurances, like TV and hifi. It is all so familiar and domestic. Don Juan? Casanova? That was in another country and, besides, the guys are dead. Hugh Hefner is alive, American, modern, trustworthy, clean, respectful, and the country's leading impresario of spectator...
Institute officials hope that by limiting participation in meetings mainly to members of one House they will create a more informal, familiar atmosphere and get better discussions, Barney Frank '62, special assistant to the director of the Institute, said yesterday...