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Word: familiarization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Wolfgang's version proved to be, as he admitted, a "look straight into the face of the past." Back again were the familiar Maypobs, lush backdrops and looming timbers. Once more, singers appeared in costumes that might have come from the Oberammergau Passion Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Looking Forward Backward | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...Entremont the conductor picked Mozart "because of the relatively small forces involved and the relatively simple rhythms," but it is Entremont the pianist who makes this a masterly record. Set off by the responsive but docile Collegium Musicum of Paris, his special gifts of musical veracity and taste enhance familiar music and make it fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 26, 1968 | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...earth itself, natural steam is a familiar source of heat and power in countries as widely separated as Italy, Iceland and New Zealand. The renewed interest in the U.S. springs from a growing population's need for more electricity. In some areas, geothermal steam offers a cheap, ready-made alternative to coal, oil and nuclear fuels, and it leaves no pollutants in the air. At The Geysers, steam-driven turbines produce 58,000 kw. of electricity at a cost 23% below that of nearby conventional generating plants; in a few years, the area could be producing almost 20 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: Percolators in the Earth | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

There were, to be sure, a few oversights. Somebody forgot to put life jackets in the neatly stenciled "life jeiket" containers under each seat. Other regulations were stretched in the happy excitement. As the plane whizzed toward Greenland, some passengers were invited up to the roomy cockpit, which looked familiar except for the Cyrillic script on the dials, and allowed to take pictures (which is forbidden over Russia proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flight of Aeroflot 03 | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

After reading this scenario-style book, you've practically already seen the movie. The familiar saga about the slum kid who fights his way to fame and wealth in the prize ring is here re-enacted in real-life Spain, where the classic path out of poverty into glory is the bull ring. The hero is El Cordobés (real name: Manuel Benítez), at 32 the most celebrated bullfighter in the world, if not always the most admired (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Technicolor Treatment | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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