Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar features of yesterday's TIME style was compound words: cinemactor, radiorator, nudancer. Writers delighted in rustling them up; readers found them by turns fascinating and irritating. Although these coinages still frequently appear in parodies of TIME style, they have disappeared from our columns. But every now and then the old urge still takes hold. For the latest contribution, see TIME ESSAY...
YELLOW SUBMARINE is an eclectically animated voyage to Pepperland, starring four cartoon Beatles. The score is mostly familiar, and the film decidedly too long, but Animator Heinz Edelmann works a few droll visual puns and some distracting graphic legerdemain...
Debonair as ever, trading jokes with old acquaintances, the familiar figure hovered at the edge of the floor when the House convened last week. Despite his jaunty air, Adam Clayton Powell betrayed some of the nervousness of a dispossessed relative at a family reunion as his sometime colleagues took the oath of office from venerable House Speaker John McCormack...
Only Castro endures, bearded as always, clad in his familiar green army fatigues, now 41. The years of experimentation and frustration seem to have mellowed him: he is a guerrilla agriculturist these days, seemingly more concerned with exporting sugar than revolutionary warfare. For last week's celebration, there was no military parade, no troops and no tanks. "We do not want to waste a gallon of gas or lose a minute of work," Fidel explained to a million cheering Habaneros in the Plaza de la Revoluci...
...series, Passant serves in a philosophical role (familiar in conventional success stories) as "the better man" whom the hero admired in youth and never quite outgrew or forgot. At the cost of his own career Passant helped struggling young people around him (including Eliot), saving them from stagnation by creating an intellectual coterie. He also preached freedom and self-expression-against the narrow restraints of provincial England in the late 1920s. Eliot's attitude toward Passant in the first book became fondly equivocal, for he served as a continual reminder that certain kinds of selflessness, though admirable, are self...