Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became the first to publish a widely circulated notion that Kennedy, immediately after the accident, had Joe Gargan, his cousin, agree to "admit to driving the car." The columnists said that Ted Kennedy, Markham and Gargan returned to the Dike Bridge "to make certain that Gargan would be totally familiar with the circumstances surrounding 'his' unfortunate accident." But "in the cold light of dawn," say Pearson and Anderson, the Senator "decided to face the consequences himself." Whatever its implausibilities, the story would explain why Kennedy might have wished to establish an alibi by showing himself at the motel...
...point is that in the upcoming Travers occurring in the classical setting of Saratoga Springs--The Spa if one is overly familiar with its location--Arts And Letters will make an appearance in the dark gray silks of Rokeby Stable...
...motives which the participants had for applying to the seminar vary, but there is an overall consensus that the academic side of the program was secondary to the change to become familiar with the United States...
Perhaps. The familiar psychology of "We made it; why can't they?" still blinds various ethnic groups - Poles, Germans, Irish, Italians and lately many Jews - to the more complex handicaps of black Americans. "The Poles had to feed their children, dress them and send them to school," says John Krawiec, editor of Chicago's Dziennik Zwiazkowy. "For centuries, our peasant ancestors were practically slaves too." The hostility of many lower-middle-class whites is compounded by the unspoken realization that, in fact, they have not really "made it" themselves...
...this century, a series of expeditions, including one in 1956 led by Norway's ever-enterprising Thor Heyerdahl, have attempted unsuccessfully to answer these familiar questions. The latest expedition was led by a French ethnologist, Francis Maziere, who in 1963 took himself, his Polynesian wife and an adventurous friend to Easter Island for a nine-month stay. In this translation of his absorbing though frequently perfervid text, Maziere describes discoveries that seem to open a crack into the heart of the prehistoric puzzle. In doing so, however, he had inadvertently generated another mystery: were the discoveries made by Maziere...