Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judging from your cover, with pictures of Kosygin, Brezhnev, Wilson, Johnson, and the bomb in the background [Oct. 23], I would guess that you had a few problems in trying to decide which the most significant news story of the week was. At any rate, you have my sympathy for the long hours and white hairs this past frantic week must have caused you. Your reporting was fine...
...agree with your high estimate of Mr. Justice Black [Oct. 9]. When people understand the background and meaning of the Court's decisions, much of the broadside criticism of the ourt which is based on ignorance of these facts disappears. The decisions of the last decade will go down in history as among the greatest in the history of the Court...
...lead over Miss Blatt, and she has been slipping in normally Democratic strongholds in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. One explanation for her lag has been the widespread defections from the ticket among Negroes, Jews, and especially Italians. Still bitter over a series of questions Clark addressed to Musmanno about his background during the primary the Italians shout agreement with Scott's charge of "bigotry," in the Blatt campaign. (She records that it is "bigotry" to charge this...
...finely painted cover of Harold Wilson would have to give way, so it became a reduced black and white engraving, and joined photographs of the new Russian leaders and a picture of President Johnson taken as the news of the scandal was breaking-all four superimposed on the background of an atomic explosion...
...square root of op art are the essentially static visual phenomena that enslave and enthrall the eye. The op artist's job is to turn those illusions into sleights of art. Some examine the way a single color looks darker than it is against a lighter background. Some, like Steele, place contrasting shapes together, which cause the eye to perceive them alternately as figure and ground; the theory is that such shifts move between stimulation and repose, possibly to relieve eyestrain. Richard Anuszkiewicz, 34, plays with afterimages, or the way one color engenders the false sensation of its complement...