Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic to the presidency-could have torn or distorted the fabric of less firmly based societies. In the U.S. they were possible without major upheavals precisely because the underlying tradition of freedom under law and of responsible citizenship is so strong. Despite the disappearance of so many familiar landmarks, Sociologist David Riesman sees "incredible durability and tenacity" and suggests that tradition is strongest when it is least self-conscious or ideological: "If you're in it, you're not self-conscious...
Drawbacks of Seniority. Reporters' bylines will offer few surprises. Guild seniority rules will force the World Journal to hang on to far too many tired oldtimers while cutting loose a batch of promising youngsters. The familiar old crowd will supply what Conniff calls "recognition value"-enough, it is hoped, to attract an initial circulation that approaches...
What has surprised public and critics alike is how familiar the exhibition looks, not because Gabo's work is familiar-it has rarely received such a substantial showing-but because of the pervasive influence his ideas have had on young moderns, particularly kinetic and op artists. Gabo's fragile spatial constructions, in their crisp, cool elegance, impersonal statement, exacting craftsmanship and knowing use of synthetic materials, evince all the artistic values so esteemed today-but they go back 50 years...
...scenery by Robert Randolph seems to have come straight out of the comic books. Metropolis's skyline is faultless. The Daily Planet, Clark Kent's apartment, City Hall, and scores of other familiar landmarks move effortlessly on and off the stage. Unfortunately, Superman himself is another matter. The wire he dangles from looks like a cable thick enough to hold the Queen Mary. And the illusion of flying is hardly enforced if you sit at the side and see Holiday waiting high up in the wings for each of his entrances...
...definitely been read (certainly Chapters 2 and 6 at the very least) and on the assumption that the public was willing to sit through two hours and forty-five minutes of a dramatized Eight Little Vassar Graduates and How They Grew, Hollywood went ahead. The surprise ending to this familiar pattern is that they've not only turned out a faithful rendering of that interesting tome, but have in fact surpassed it. The Group is the Hollywood story in reverse: it would have been far better to have seen the movie, then read the book...