Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the other selections are not of such universal interest. The Advocate prides itself on having had contributions from Eliot, E. A. Robinson '95, Wallace Stevens '01, John Reed '10, both Roosevelts, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38, and practically every other graduate whose name is familiar. But, distinguished names aside, the writing is pathetic. John Reed may be appreciated for Ten Days that Shook the World, but is admiration for him and interest in his work supposed to stretch to include the poems about seagulls written when he was 18 years...
...Although familiar allegiances of class, or age, or sex still tie blocs of voters to one of the two great parties, most observers agree that the electorate in the crucial marginal constituencies will be swayed by their impression of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, or his rival, Edward Heath, Tory party leader...
...Picker '67 has twisted this familiar plot and given it something of a new ending. Her stranger, Sophia, has become engaged to the family's elder son, Danny, and he is bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note...
Holography produces no familiar photographic negative or print. But when light is directed upon a holographic negative-or hologram-its smudgy and apparently meaningless patterns of concentric circles and parallel lines become a window through which a viewer sees the scene that was photographed. By moving his head from side to side, he can look through that window at different angles and change the perspective of the three-dimensional view; he can look around an object in the foreground to see what is behind it, just as if he were examining the actual scene...
...teachers than any other book," exclaims Jean Thomas, curriculum supervisor in the San Francisco public schools. "As a portrait of teen-age society, it is a classic on the order of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye," says Los Angeles Teacher Olga Richards. "I'm not familiar with the book," huffs H. M. Landrum, superintendent of Houston's Spring Branch School District...