Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color spread on the new nude look. But while finding the right garments turned out to be a time-consuming procedure, there was no difficulty in choosing the setting for the photographs. Because Greece and Crete, Sardinia, Rhodes and Rome are places where the nude look was familiar centuries ago, the editors decided that the only proper background would be the Mediterranean littoral...
...AVANT-GARDE spirit is in the most general sense a reaffirmation of the sanctity of irreverence. Precisely because its challenges are so dramatic on one level and yet so familiar on another, it draws strength from an inescapable tradition. Igor Stravinsky, almost certainly the century's greatest composer and one who moved independently of the orthodox avant-garde, more a less stated this tradition in his Poetics of Music...
...those who cannot forget a face, there is something in the curly hair, the forthright blue eyes and the squared-off jaw to bring back nostalgic twinges. The name is familiar too. When Barry Morris Goldwater Jr., 30, showed off his proud mom and dad to jubilant California conservatives, it was Goldwater père's evocation of the 1964 right-wing crusade that stimulated the cheering section. "In your hearts," said Barry Sr., "you know we're right...
Listeners who come unawares to a new LP called Blood, Sweat & Tears may be as confused as the blind men discovering an elephant in the familiar folk parable. One blind man feels the elephant's leg and says that.the beast is a pillar; another feels the tuft of its tail and declares the elephant to be a broom, and so on. Depending on which tracks of the record listeners happen to touch upon, the recording group-which is also called Blood, Sweat & Tears-sounds like many different bands. In Smiling Phases, it is a hard-chugging blues-rock outfit...
...Levin-Jarvis entry, however, whipped the Amherst tandem in straight sets this spring, and must be rated the favorite. Harvard will enjoy an added advantage of playing on a familiar court surface. The bulk of the tournament is slated for M.I.T.'s clay courts, exactly similar to the Crimson's Soldiers' Field playing surfaces, and the overflow matches will be sent to Harvard...