Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Corley Wallace's politics are about as new as "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!" yet even the Alabamian is helped by the electorate's prevailing en nui with familiar faces and conventional styles. He took his third-party candidacy on a six-day, 24-town swing through Massachusetts last week, drawing curious, generally friendly crowds of up to 3,000, despite ubiquitous hecklers. The latest Gallup poll showed that Wallace has steadily gained popularity not only in the Solid South but elsewhere in the country as well...
...Vietnamese, got along well with the "Yards." It is not unusual to see a Special Forces man, decked out in loincloth and wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages by now (their periodic patrols usually include medics, who treat the villagers), the children always look in awe and delight at the foreign giants, occasionally sneaking up to touch with wonder a hairy...
This bouquet of primrose and bittersweet was clipped in England from the hardy perennial about the middle-aged married gentleman and his young mistress. Here it sheds all the old familiar petals: Go-Away-This-Will-All-End-In-A-Mess, Saying-Goodnight-to-the-Children, the Stolen Weekend, Overheard-at-the-Hairdresser, and even Do -You - Think -You -Can -Look -After...
...Familiar. Too often, however, the contributors to this book are simply blinded by their own racism. The fact that Styron is a Virginia-born white seems to discredit him instantly in the eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron involved in a white man's plot to divest black people of their "historical revolutionary leaders." Novelist John O. Killens ('Sippi) writes: Styron "is like a man who tries to sing the blues when he has not paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor...
...mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon,' but not in their meaning of 'wife' and 'love-letter.' And there is a parade of obscure proper names, Elizabethan slang, malapropisms, and sentences in both good and bad Latin. All of this makes...