Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play is not Wolfe's novel miraculously purged of all its faults and yet preserving all its fullness. It could not be, and in a certain sense the play is not Look Homeward, Angel at all. It is neater, smaller, simpler -a workable family play, set against a background of the family boarding house and squeezed into a few weeks' time. In one respect, something has been lost: the characters are no longer so fully and revealingly lived with, hence so expressive or large. In another respect, something has been blurred: there is a lessened thematic sense...
...experiment; so far, a spokesman admitted, the results in the station's mail volume have been as subliminal as the message. But the trade weekly Broadcasting found two radio stations that reported success with a similar method: short announcements slipped quietly into natural pauses or over a musical background. Not really subliminal, they are consciously perceptible-but just barely. KLTI in Longview, Texas calls these commercials "Radio Active Iso-Spots," explains: "They get in underneath and spotlight attention, just like an isotope in medicine...
...contrast to the strolling guitar players who frequented the Capriccio, Bach fugues and fifteenth century canciones provide background music at the Mozart. "I much prefer to listen to Schweitzer play Bach than have someone strumming in here. Besides I don't like the guitar much--except for Segovia. I also try to discourage the exhibitionist tendency so often found in today's coffee houses, and I think it is very well discouraged here...
...Pentagon's newly announced Advanced Research Agency will still fall under some of these criticisms, since it will be under the jurisdiction of the Defense Department. But it also will have a civilian head, with a background of "broad executive experience and scientific training...
...general fiasco rests with nearly everyone but the set designer, John Beck, whose amazingly careful stone walls and interesting extended floor areas triumph over the standard limitations of Agassiz. The sets were helped by fine, if not always timely lighting. It is a shame to waste such a fine background...