Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christmas carols dating from the period during which most of the paintings were done provide an appropriate musical background for the exhibition. Another feature is a recorded lecture on Renaissance art The Christmas Story will last through Jan. 2; like all the exhibits it is free and open daily. The exhibition that immediately preceded it was a retrospective of the works of Boris
This consensus, Reid adds, acknowledged the insights of thinkers who, before the council, were considered almost an underground minority-such as U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, whose theories on church-state relations provided background for the religious-liberty statement. In the wake of this progressive victory has come what Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of Nijmegen University calls "the triumph of anti-triumphal ism"-the rejection by the council of the world-hating, anathema-hurling Counter Reformation conviction that Catholicism alone possessed the truth of life. In contrast to past councils, which devoted much of their time consigning to eternal flames those...
...alleviate the silence, Houston also began piping background music into Gemini 7 on a radio band that would not interfere with normal voice communications. Some of the popular tunes, like Fly Me to the Moon, seemed more appropriate for the Apollo program, others for a teen-age hangout. But later in the week, largely at the urging of NASA Secretary Geri Ann Vanderoef, the Kraft Music Hall, as it was called in honor of Flight Director Chris Kraft (TIME cover, Aug. 27), took on an elevated tone with selections from Bach...
Handel, Glinka and Dvorak. Against this soothing background, Astronaut Lovell was allowed to strip off his space suit and fly in his underwear. He thus became the first U.S. astronaut to fly without a pressurized suit, which affords the only protection against a sudden, accidental decompression of the Gemini spacecraft...
John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, said that a background in the Harvard Houses might be a better qualification for a Master than a position on the Harvard Faculty...