Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholar, confessing that he had not started to write, was asked whether he had finished his research. "One is never finished with one's research," he said. "Let's say I'm familiar with the material...
...study of the small but growing number of young men whose angry opposition to the Viet Nam war and bitter disillusionment with U.S. society have led to self-exile and the familiar chant, "Hell no, we won't go." Correspondent George Page gives a report on draft resisters in Canada, Sweden and the U.S. in an effort to evaluate the severe implications of their civil disobedience...
...That prissy wrap-up about see-through blouses "dulling the senses" [April 19] seems vaguely familiar. Hasn't that same broken record been grinding away ever since legs first emerged from the hobble skirt? In the time from flapper fringe to miniskirt, legs may indeed have lost their shock value, but a well-turned leg still turns heads. What short skirts have done for the leg man, see-through blouses may yet do for the more high-minded girl watcher...
...book, the war was only the background framing the twin heroes, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov) and his friend Pierre Bezukhov (played by Director Bondarchuk), who represent the two faces of the aristocracy. The outlines of the plot are familiar even to those nonreaders who saw the 1956 miniversion, with Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, and Henry Fonda. Andrei, a sophisticate and soldier, is unable to alter his archaic sensibilities and perishes in the war. Pierre, muddling through the chaos around him, does nothing right, but because he has the capacity to grow and change, he survives. Between...
...source of the book's vitality is its language-supple and colloquial, yet framed in the syntax of surprise. The syncopated speech patterns constantly shift away from familiar formulations. In An Interest in Life, a deserted mother observes: a woman "gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little kids, or she could just die of the pleasure. But men are different, they have to own money, men must do well in the world. I know that men are not fooled by being happy...