Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious tradition in the families of the students reveals some parallels to present positions. Those students who have become agnostic in opinion characterize the influence of this tradition as "slight" or "moderate"; the fourteen strong Catholics predominantly characterized their background as including a "marked" religious tradition, although a sizable segment of the orthodox evaluated their tradition as only of "slight" or "moderate" influence...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, introduces freshmen and upperclassmen to the various doctrines of philosophy in Philosophy 1. For the freshman, especially one who comes from a relatively sheltered religious background, the introduction to such thinkers as Spinoza and Hume may prove novel and disquieting. Demos admits some students may be shaken by an introduction to skepticism...
...center of the room stood an old claw-legged bathtub that could accommodate a couple of good friends. On some evenings, Beatnik Author Lawrence Lipton, whose book, The Holy Barbarians, heralds "Venice West" as the new home of beatdom, read his cool poetry against a jazz background. It was like crazy...
East Indies. If there is a fault, it lies in the question: How much of a good thing is bearable? The little girl is surrounded by servants who know more than their place; they know their background of overriding superstition in which native magic is more powerful than any white man's god. They obey their masters and know their masters' weaknesses. Their own lives encompass an area to which the white folks have no pass, and it is one of Author Dermout's virtues that she can suggest this life without dragging the reader through kitchens...
High-Speed Film. A still-camera film 15 times faster than its present film was put on sale by the Polaroid Corp. for use with Polaroid Land cameras, which take, develop and print photos in 60 seconds. With a low-cost ($17.95) "wink light" that fills in background shadows and replaces flashbulbs, the new film takes pictures in table-lamp light. Cost: $1.79 per eight-exposure roll...