Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amateur casting works in general. We avoid the disruptive inongruities we'd get if we recognized, say, Mastroianni as Christ, or Gassman as John the Baptist. Still, one's preconceptions about these familiar characters persist, and mine labelled miscast the Angel of the Lord, Salome, the old Mary, and Judas...
Winemakers in Reims, Epernay, Tours-sur-Marne and other towns in the Champagne district of France last week observed a familiar three-century tradition. In antiseptic rooms, committees of tasters eyed, sniffed and sipped six-month-old white wine, neatly spit out each taste into marble basins. Testing 25 to 45 varieties, they matched the acidity of one with the sweetness of another, the weakness of one with another's strong alcoholic body. When they were done, the formula had been arrived at by which such famous champagne houses as Krug, Mumm, Moët et Chandon...
...about" Henry by God, and if Berryman's public descriptions of Henry are cagey, he is no more willing to divert the audience with coy adversions to his own skills or state of mind. For a long time poetry in this country has been working with an arsenal of familiar tools--"effects," "devices" and "meanings"--all largely technical considerations. Such a situation has often led to the spectacle of hordes of young men writing very well about very little. The reader is only encouraged to read the work, and locate all the sources of his response there...
Beginning concentrators in most fields have some idea of what they are getting into. If they don't know much about the methods of their discipline, they are at least somewhat familiar with the nature of the subject matter. In Anthropology, on the other hand, there are always a few concentrators who choose the field for the wrong reasons and regret it later. There are also several who subject Anthropology because, likewise they aren't well informed...
...enchiridion, ochlocracy.* He lapses frequently into ungrammatical constructions and even into error. In his hands, the Court of St. James's, to which all ambassadors to Britain pay their respects, loses its possessive case. L'Osservatore della Domenica, a Vatican weekly, is falsely identified as the more familiar Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. Anyone who dials Socrates Lovinger's number, as given by Carson-LE 5-3221-is bound to get the wrong dog. And where Carson wants to score a point, he fudges: "More people are drinking, but per capita they drink less...