Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover assemblage completed, Scarfe was delighted to turn back to more familiar artistic tools and go to work on the cartoons that illustrate the story. Unlike Scarfe, Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story, figured he was all too familiar with TV commercials. One set glows constantly in his office; three others sound off steadily in his Manhattan apartment, to the delight of his six children. What Kennedy and Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum wanted was an expert appraisal of what spots should be concentrated on. That appraisal was supplied by Reporter Peter Borrelli and Researcher Sandra Burton after...
...Bonn's criminal court sat the Chancellor of West Germany, Kurt Georg Kiesinger. He had been subpoenaed to testify in the war crimes trial of a former diplomat who was charged with arranging transportation for 11,343 Bulgarian Jews to German death camps. The defense plea was a familiar one for postwar Germany: the defendant had not known what was happening in those camps. Defense lawyers summoned Kiesinger on the grounds that if he, as acting chief of the Foreign Ministry's radio-propaganda section at the time, did not know about the camps, then Nazi diplomats...
...many characterizations based on traditional Southern regional cardboard stock. Mike Thelwell, a teacher at the University of Massachusetts, reasonably suggests that black slaves developed two languages, "one for themselves and another for white masters," and that Styron has captured neither. Thelwell argues that the more public form is the familiar dialect found in the works of Southern-dialect humorists. The other, "the real language," was the stuff of spirituals that has informed the sermons of preachers from the earliest days down to Martin Luther King; this undoubtedly was the diction used by Turner and his fellow insurrectionists. Thelwell charges that...
...their choices for running mate, seeking the broadest possible ideological umbrella. The old considerations of geographical balance are largely forgotten in the age of jet travel and TV. Instead, the candidates are seeking vice-presidential possibilities to bandage their political weak spots-and to add some luster to their familiar personalities. Some combinations discussed last week...
...line will be in a position to handle more of the overseas air cargo that now flies directly into Chicago for redistribution rather than setting down in San Francisco or New York. At the same time, in such company Continental's name will become a little more familiar abroad. That will be just fine with Six, who has big ambitions to make his airline an international carrier...