Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin; and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. The familiar chronicling of Nazi terror against European Jewry takes a grim turn closer to home with documentation showing that Allied governments, including the U.S., refused to take action to prevent the genocide...
...which a campaign aide gives newsmen a story which cannot be attributed except to "a high spokesman" or "sources close to..." "I don't want to make a public defense of the campaign," one such speaker began. "No, vou want to make an anonvmous public defense," one reporter familiar with the technique interjected...
...together postwar French art with the great masters from before 1930 is artificial and unfair. The work is simply not of the same order." He is at least 91.23% correct, though the distinction is not likely to disturb the average museumgoer, who will revel in the early, if decidedly familiar canvases by Matisse, Chagall, Braque, Dufy, Derain, Vlaminck and other cubist and fauvist favorites. Particularly impressive: Picasso's rarely shown room-sized stage curtain from the 1917 production of Diaghilev's ballet, Parade...
...HemisFair's chief designer, Allison Peery, meaning that all the exhibits are within easy walking distance. On the elevated "people expressway," no point is more than a ten-minute walk from any other, and for variety there are flower-bedecked barges plying the canals, a minimonorail, and that familiar world's fair fixture, the Swiss Skyride, lofting fairgoers 80 ft. in the air from one edge of the grounds to the other. Pure Texas: the massive outdoor air conditioners that cool off the busiest walkways, rest areas and queues...
Just examines the now familiar ambiguities of the war with detail that is not often found in books of this kind. The language barrier, he notes, is so great that neither English nor Vietnamese can be successfully translated one into the other. He points out that since Vietnamese verbs do not change tense, the Vietnamese sense of time is indefinite. More important, perhaps, is the absence of the personal pronoun "I." Because Vietnamese speak of themselves in the third person, "a man's identity, his sense of himself, is always in relation to something, or someone else-usually something...