Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number two at the Pentagon, Vance became thoroughly familiar with Viet Nam's political and military problems-knowledge that will serve him well in the negotiations. With his passion for precision and clarity, he is a superb administrator as well as a brilliant legal mind with a virtually encyclopedic memory. Vance characteristically dresses in dark suits, white button-down shirts and bold-striped ties. In 1947, he married Grace Elsie Sloane, daughter of John Sloane, former board chairman of Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation's oldest home-furnishing house. The Vances have five children...
Laundry List. In Nebraska, McCarthy's campaign machine is somewhat ramshackle. He is widely unknown among Nebraskans, and until this week had made only four appearances in the state. Bobby, by contrast, is almost too familiar in the Republican bastion that gave Nixon his largest margin against John Kennedy in 1960. Headed by Ted Sorensen's brother Philip, former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor, Kennedy's team last week was busily imitating McCarthy tactics by dispatching scores of student volunteers to canvass at least 200,000 Democratic households. In Indiana, Bobby's admirers had become dangerously demonstrative. Jostled...
Sobering Record. What makes Vienna so resistible? Doubtless, the fact that prospective directors are only too familiar with the job. They realize that inside, they would have to wrestle with stultifying traditionalism, intrigues, archaic business practices that date back to the time of Emperor Franz Josef, entrenched labor unions, and a recalcitrant Vienna Philharmonic. Outside, there is a formidable battery of critics, a musically conservative but demanding public, and an unpredictable Parliament that holds the purse strings...
Every morning now when I wake up I have to run through the whole thing in my mind. I have to do that because I wake up in a familiar place that isn't what it was. I wake up and I see blue coats and brass buttons all over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening...
YEARS AGO at the Metropolitan Museum, I fell in love with the sculptures of Degas. Like most enthusiasts who are only familiar with his pastels or oils. I was surprised to find that he had sculpted at all. The same surprise was renewed last week at the Fogg in discovering the Degas monotypes. Both these media were exceedingly personal ones for Degas, and knowledge of them will deepen and broaden the understanding of anyone who is familiar with his epoch only through its paintings...