Word: familiarization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! On the eve of a departure, memories wrestle with longings, the familiar competes with the unknown. Irish Playwright Brian Friel gives a compassionate rendering of the conflict in one young man as he prepares to leave Ireland for the new world...
...NCAA Council believes that the best place for a student with a grade average under 1.6 is in the library," Monro said. "I say, how do you know? Perhaps a sport is the one familiar thing which can help his adjustment to a strange environment...
...Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation, former New York City Detective Charles O'Hara goes far beyond the familiar Mutt & Jeff routine in which a suspect is scared witless by a "bad guy" detective and is then saved by a "good guy" who coaxes him to shame the baddy by talking freely. O'Hara not only stresses "bluff on a split
Unseen Son. It was just such a swearing contest that created Escobedo v. Illinois, but in that case the nation's highest tribunal upheld the defendant -something that still awes Danny Escobedo, now 28 and long familiar with police stations. At his height, Danny hardly seems a threat to any healthy policewoman; yet he has managed to get himself picked up twice for "investigation" and arrested five times on charges ranging from assault to murder, including two arrests since his release for packing a pistol and selling barbiturates. So far, he has beaten every...
...hesitates to consign A Man's A Man to the second category, but it is a relentlessly episodic history of immutably two-dimensional characters. Its message--that the army hampers self-expression--is obvious and overly familiar. Structurally limp, the play begins arbitrarily, and ends at least three times...