Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vogel said, however, that since information on Communist China is hard to obtain, students need to be given a background before they can have any intelligent discussion. The same lack of information, he added, has made past student papers disappointing...
...N.C.F.A.'s new gallery, the paintings are suffused with something approximating their original unearthly aura, a weird kind of radiant half-light that Ryder thought of as "golden luminosity." It floods across the two foreground figures in Christ Appearing to Mary, painted about 1885. It pulses in the background of The Flying Dutchman, which shows the phantom ship gliding across the horizon behind an open boat manned by three storm-tossed mariners. As Ryder remarked: "What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" In this painting, the storm is undeniably there...
...relocate the entire bureau, including Teletype machines, to a hotel suite across the street from the space headquarters south of Houston. While TIME'S editors watched the TV screens in and around New York, correspondents from 25 bureaus in the U.S. and abroad filed a steady stream of background, evaluation and reaction...
...greatness of Bach has been recognized for more than a century. But in all likelihood no prior age has better appreciated the true nature of his gifts. Musicologists have brought his works into clearer focus by editing his scores and clarifying their historic and esthetic background. Today's performers, heirs to the Baroque revival of recent decades, have a better sense of 18th century style, and instinctively reject the romantic excesses of the past. The advent of the LP has created a vast new audience for Bach, as it has for other composers; but Bach is a special beneficiary...
...illustration of the line "playboys who live each hour" (from the poem "The Voyage") two figures make love. They are flat pleasureless forms against an utterly bleak background. They lie on a black band which spans the middle of the page like blacktop crossing a desert. Nolan connects the bodies into the hopelessness of this world by continuing the brushstrokes of the black across their forms. There is no clarity or vitality in their bodies or their...