Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other 113 passengers. Gleason was highballing to Miami Beach to begin taping his fall television series. CBS donated $18,000, plus $1,500 in tipping change, to sponsor the rolling bedlam called the Great Gleason Express. Amid the blares of the stuck diesel horns ("BAAAAH!") and a familiar howl ("HOW SU-WEET IT is!"), the dancers, cronies, reporters and flacks attacked 500 Ibs. of assorted meats, 30 cans of mock turtle soup, 2,614 one-shot whisky bottles and, as they dragged into Miami next day, 40 boxes of aspirin and alkalines...
...Coffin for Dimitrios. Another confirmed repeater is Author Barzini, who claims that "you can always open Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and find some wonderful sequence about a Byzantine emperor gouging his son's eyes out." A psychiatrist might sneer that the compulsive repeater needs a familiar book for the same reason that Linus totes his blanket-as a form of security against the bristling insecurities of a strange environment...
...Over-familiar...
Fresh material and personal glimpses of the men involved bring the familiar narrative to life: Einstein absently losing his way to the lavatory in Los Alamos, Fermi cycling his way to work, the sweat-pearled faces of the scientists as they eased the nuclear core into the bomb case and then took their places to watch the results of their own handi work: a sudden fire hotter and brighter than...
...best ideas became The Other America, a compelling study of poverty in the U.S. that caught the attention of President Kennedy. In his new book, Author Harrington abandons sociological reportage and essays a sweeping analysis of 20th century culture in crisis. His theses are all too familiar. Proliferating technology has transformed Western civilization: "The chasm between technological capacity and economic, political, social, and religious consciousness has unsettled every faith and creed in the West." Economic collectivization is inevitable. But it has begun in America without conscious planning, and the power of economic decision now rests with bureaucratic corporations rather than...