Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT curling gold serpent on the background of TIME'S cover this week is the symbol of the American Medical Association and of Aesculapius, the god of medicine. It is not to be confused with the more familiar two coiled snakes that the U.S. Army Medical Corps uses, and which the A.M.A. considers a mistake. Two snakes coiled around a winged staff form the caduceus of the god Mercury, who, aside from being the messenger of the gods, is also god of commerce, the deity of thieves and conductor of the dead to the underworld. The A.M.A. prefers...
...weird and ghostly harmonics. A virtuoso on his instrument. Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings. The piece most startling to audiences is a concoction by Smith in which he improvises against a background tape recording of an electronically scrambled version of his own clarinet playing, complete with "key clicks and breath noises...
...come to pass: six surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...
...chance, it went to a good friend of Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which passes on all new judges. William Harold Cox, who roomed with Eastland at the University of Mississippi law school nearly 40 years ago, has a solid legal background in Jackson, has occasionally served as a circuit judge and has not publicly committed himself on touchy civil rights issues. Yet, just as if a button had been pushed, the N.A.A.C.P. began protesting...
Spain is still a no man's land of ideas, but a historian old enough (at 30) to be interested, and young enough not to have been personally committed, has now moved into the field. Hugh Thomas, whose background is Cambridge, the British Foreign Office and Sandhurst, has, by his own account, consulted nearly a thousand books in five great libraries and in five languages to lend weight to his massive reappraisal of Spain. He is the first historian to write as neither a partisan nor an embittered memoirist. His book is likely to be for some time...