Word: backgrounding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that there is no essential difference between natural philosophy and aesthetic theory. Specifically, he feels that all artistic expressions should combine the formal unity of classicism with the freedom of the Romantics. He has applied this criterion to his criticism of painting, sculpture, and literature, but feels that his background is insufficient for a detailed commentary on music. Creative efforts of his own are only literary; his imagist poetry has been widely acclaimed and The Green Child, an allegorical novel, is considered brilliant...
...style combining prehistoric and ultra-modern art. They stare at each other across the library and supposedly symbolize diseased minds. On another wall hangs a Chinese painting of a banquet, given the Clinic as a Christmas present. And throughout the house, Oriental art covers the walls, providing an exotic background for the laboratory's mental therapy...
...Groningen, The Netherlands, won the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the phase contrast microscope. Ordinary microscopes work by shooting light through the objects to be examined. If some of the light is absorbed or reflected, the object shows up as a dark area against a bright background. The trouble is that many microscopic things, especially living cells and organisms, are almost perfectly transparent. Unless they are stained, which generally kills them, they do not show up well...
...liberal-arts graduates into "lush" secretarial jobs or the retail-store business, but send them into "fusty, dusty publishing houses ... I think the reason you people steer them there-one college places a full third of its graduates in jobs of that type-is because of our American Puritanical background. If it was hard and dull and didn't pay much, it was good for you, and the harder and duller and littler it paid, the more respectable it must be. I don't agree. There's nothing immoral about getting into the big money. Sophie Tucker...
These defects will continue until key decisions are taken out of military hands and given to civilian scientists. at the present time, all weapons research is directed by officers of the three services. These men are neither stupid nor incompetent; they simply lack the scientific background to make decisions for themselves. The services actually object to giving high rank to their scientific personnel. It nearly took an act of Congress to promote naval engineering expert Hyman Rickover from captain to admiral last year. Rickover is a specialist, and the Navy, as well as the Army and Air Force, insists that...