Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Ludwig Erhard became Chancellor a year ago, his Christian Democrats have been confident that his familiar bulky form-the very symbol of peacetime prosperity-would carry the party to an easy victory in next year's nationwide elections. Last week, in municipal elections involving 45% of the voters, their confidence got a bit of a jolt...
...that a nostalgic song put in a satirical context could then be savored for its sentimentality even while it was being bitterly spoofed. Songs like Pack Up Your Troubles and Keep the Home Fires Burning are used in just this way in Lovely War. Even more evocative are the familiar Christian hymns to which World War I soldiers added cynical and bawdy stanzas...
...speaker was not U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, from whom the words would have seemed familiar, or any of the other usual spokesmen for the steel industry. It was Joseph L. Block, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel and the man who, at President Kennedy's bidding, held the price line in 1962, thus forcing his colleagues to rescind their controversial price hikes...
Most of the reporters who travel with the President treat him like an old friend with whose whims and eccentricities they are intimately familiar. They often imitate his style on the plane and can even be seen mouthing the words coming from the President. In any case, the press is always cognizant of the Johnson technique of handling people. As one 20-year veteran of White House coverage commented last week, "When he needs us he's nice, but when he doesn't, he can be the least cooperative man in Washington...
While all the Central Kitchen Houses had become "familiar" with their serving women, Hurlburt said, very few women had complained and only Winthrop House had drawn up a petition...