Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk was pure speculation, but the "members" were all men of serious scientific background who thought, on the basis of their knowledge, that there might be an outside chance of their speculations materializing. They were not interested in the practical possibilities--they wanted to build things to see if they could be built; to discuss things that no one else was discussing; to think thoughts that had never been thought...
...announcers are generally destructive to realism, the background voices are disasterous, The scene where the state militia is being organized, for example, is made ludicrous by an "Hup two three four!" snarling merrily in the background. The dying shrieks as the death ray hums destruction are not very convincing, although amusing...
...from such institutions as Harvard, Columbia, Michigan and the Menninger Foundation flatly denied the McGurk thesis. Though Negro children generally do not do as well in school as the whites, said the 18, their showing has nothing to do with native intelligence, but is only the result of inferior background and schooling. "The conclusion is inescapable that any decision to use differences of the average achievement of the two racial groups as a basis for classifying in advance any individual child, Negro or white, is scientifically unjustified...
More particularly, Farnsworth noted five "monotonously familiar" aspects of the background of students who fail or do poorly in-college work. 1) Discord between parents, making it impossible for the dependent child to love one parent without getting in trouble with the other. 2) "Absence of warm feelings and sincere emotional reactions on the part of those with whom the growing person has contact...
Harvard's Music Department has forgotten the non-concentrator. There is only one course this year for the amateur: the ever-popular Music I. The theory courses require a background, and history subjects given in the past have disappeared. Non-specialized music-lovers used to be welcome in The Symphony, Chamber Music, Bach, Madrigals and Opera, but these courses exist no longer. In a University with any kind of scope, departments such as Music should not be allowed to become ingrown...