Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After looking at the 28-minute television film, Operation Ivy, last week, the U.S. public could hardly be blamed for feeling that it had been given too slight a review of the first full-scale thermonuclear explosion and too much of sonorous background music, theatrical hokum and bureaucratic lens-hogging. The film, released 17 months after the event (just in time to heighten world apprehension abroad over last month's two bigger explosions), was subject to massive and at times confusing cutting in the name of security. But even so, it might, as some of its scenes dramatically demonstrated...
...Ancient history is a luxury only reluctantly afforded . . . Medieval history is only better off by degree. Both, to be sure, have had the ground cut from under them by the failure of the lower schools to provide sufficient students with the necessary classical background. The university itself may be blamed in part; faced with the fact that the lower schools had fallen under the administration of a faction that regarded such disciplined studies as languages to be a waste of time and unnecessary for contemporary living, the university had either to drop its requirements or not to admit students...
...Fremd is head researcher for TIME'S Business section, with a staff of five researchers who go out on interviews, gather background material for writers, run down elusive figures and check facts. As it happens, Researcher Fremd's job at TIME is somewhat different from the career she had originally planned. In the seventh grade at Larchmont, N.Y. she decided to become a police reporter. She joined TIME in 1946 after editorial and production jobs on industrial trade magazines. By then her interests had veered from crime to finance, and she was hired as a researcher...
...picture's musical score of popular classics is interpreted with spirit on the sound track by Pianist Claudio Arrau and Violinist Michael Rabin. There are also some Alps in the background, Technicolor and plenty of overdecorated interiors. Elizabeth Taylor wears beautiful clothes, and Vittorio Gassman, when he plays the fiddle in a ski suit, is the most dashing thing of the kind since the lovesick violinist in the perfume...
Spiders & Guillotines. The famed Holmesian deductive method is also unchanged. In "The Deptford Horror," for example, it is soon clear that Mr. Theobold Wilson is a left-handed man with a Cuban background. "Your [walking] stick is cut from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror...