Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ordinary progressive schools have similar equipment, since U.S. toy manufacturers have stolen many of Maria Montessori's original designs and ideas. But where progressive schools use the tools as one of many activities in which the teacher plays a major role, Montessori schools put the teacher in the background while the didactic teaching materials do much of the work...
...Anne-Marie of Denmark is a very modern miss from a land of the most advanced institutions and culture. And yet she represents and carries forward the old and now increasingly rare institution of royalty. To strike this note of present and past, Artist Bernard Safran used as the background for his portrait of the pretty young princess part of the heraldic insignia of Denmark's large coat of arms. Its lions passant (walking, three paws on the ground, the right forepaw raised, the head looking forward, the tail curved over the back) and hearts are derived from...
...bloc to live, work, pay taxes and draw welfare benefits anywhere in Scandinavia (including Iceland, which won its independence from Denmark in 1944, Danish-ruled Greenland and the semiautonomous Faroe Islands), and today they virtually have common citizenship. They are linked by similar parliamentary systems, laws, education, a Lutheran background, their hunger for books and food, the absence of class, race or religious frictions or of governmental corruption. A passion for exercise explains the firm figures, clear eyes and radiant complexions of their beautiful women...
...tour of Tokyo eight years ago, Composer Benjamin Britten was introduced to "a totally new operatic experience"-a Japanese No drama. Fascinated by the stark economy of style and the eerie mixtures of guttural chants, drums and flute, Britten decided that it might be interesting to give an English background to the simple tale of Sumida-gawa- a demented mother seeking her lost child...
...undiscovered as yet that few Turks have heard of it, let alone been there. Most of it can be reached only by yacht, many of which are chartered in Athens, and there are no hotels-only peasant villages, sandy beaches, rocky promontories, azure water, clear skies and a background of snow-capped mountains. This coast was once a favorite Greco-Roman resort area (one town with a modern population of 500 has an ancient amphitheater with a seating capacity of 30,000), and on one beach the sea laps at the steps of a ruined temple and the traveler swims...