Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classical music and rock 'n' roll, both of which abound in European record stores, are Portuguese fados, Neapolitan tenors, Scots pipers, Spanish flamencos, German beer songs, French chanteuses, Welsh miners, nightclub and music-hall performers, tin ny little village bands and Tyrolean yodelers. There are even some familiar U.S. singers (and songs) in unfamiliar languages...
MAME is more lavish entertainment than outstanding musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto...
...picking Le Pare, the jury fulfilled a need for art to outpace popular appreciation. Pop itself, restricted to the sophisticated scavenger's delight, or the satirist's mocking image, has grown familiar and static. Op and kinetic art, like that of Le Fare's, are less human because they are less dependent on whim and whimsy. In the ephemeral flow of contemporary styles, this art chitters and clatters on ahead like a mechanical rabbit with transistorized circuits...
Like all savvy salesmen, Unilever knows its territory. It blends local beliefs with modern marketing methods, promotes another familiar product by employing comely local women-each is known as "Miss Lux"-who often accompany the Omo man. While other private companies in Africa have been chivvied by dictators and political upheavals, Unilever has discovered many new markets and diversified in dozens of directions. With steadily rising sales, which last year reached $689 million, it retains its position as the largest private enterprise in tropical Africa. The United Africa Co. (U.A.C.), Unilever's principal subsidiary in its African group...
...Dissent. Koningsberger found the people looking well fed and clothed. Shops seemed well stocked; there was no "atmosphere of scarcity," despite contradictory evidence of rationed rice and cloth. No "blue ants slaving away" -except for the familiar "drag coolies" hauling inhuman loads of coal and pig iron. No beggars anywhere, no flies even on manure heaps. The countryside appeared to be the immemorial land of the peasant-few motor highways, trucks or tractors but plenty of human feet treadling water wheels. Soldiers with guns nowhere to be seen. In short, "the daily comings and goings of the people look terribly...