Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins" [Feb. 9]? The answer can be found in their religious background, which is compatible with the scientific spirit of free inquiry: Judaism...
...musical background later stood him in good stead. In 1957, teamed with ten-year-old Star Eddie Hodges of The Music Man, he won $12,500 on a TV quiz show called Name That Tune. *President Kennedy was confused about this flight last week in praising Glenn. Said Kennedy: "Some years ago, as a Marine pilot, he raced the sun across this country?and lost." Glenn could not have raced the sun even if he had wanted to, since he flew from west to east...
According to current engineering theory, quiet is created by adding noise. Such background noises as the soft buzz of a fluorescent light or the slight hiss of an air cooler do not inhibit concentration (whereas the sound of voices or footsteps does). If background noise in an office averages 20 decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized...
...Congdon explores both the sorrows and joys of Christian revelation. Like nearly all religious artists in history, he has been moved by the drama of the Cross. In most of Congdon's ten powerful Crucifixions, the figure of Christ is a stricken sweep of white against a mottled background of browns, greys and blacks. When he turns to the exultant scenes of the New Testament-Christ's Ascension into Heaven, the Nativity-Congdon's palette changes; the triumph of God is painted in springlike shades of blue, green, yellow and gold. "It is probable," Catholic Poet Critic...
Nicholas Bodine has come to Antibes and Juan-les-Pins to forget his wife, a philandering lady pianist. He is an American wanderer of European background, whose strongest characteristic is a persistent fretfulness and a concern for the color of clothes. What has maimed him, he thinks, is his frustrated passion for his bitch-wife, Liliane. But his strongest attachment is to a young, handsome male servant, an Algerian named Jeannot...