Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing in Japan is the left...
...pages of this intelligently edited, handsomely bound book include a Brady biography (unfamiliar to most Americans) and over 400 superb Brady photographs, together with a number made by his assistants (at the height of his activities, he had 21). There are also some 200 Brady portrait photographs, some of them (notably Phineas T. Barnum, side-showman extraordinary-see cut-and Walt Whitman) never published before. Outstanding is the series of photographs of Lincoln taken by Brady in his studio...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...
Even without a thorough grounding in the classical Chinese theatre, one feels that "Lute Song" has preserved the essential spirit of a lyrical drama with a simple, fairy tale-like atmosphere unfamiliar to must American theatre goers. The unadorned plot--a story similar to Chancer's "Patient Griselda"--remains intact through the translation and condensation into one-third the original length, as do elements of Confucian ethics and what appears to be satire of Buddhist ritual...
...other eastern colleges, unfamiliar names like "Yale News Digest," "Princeton Bulletin," Dartmouth "Log," and "Harvard Service News" still greeted student readers. The Brown Herald was first again...