Word: foregrounds
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...trivision" negatives (as the Navy calls them) are reversed, the foreground appearing to be the background. But printed on special "trivision paper" they are startlingly lifelike. The process is not yet ready for demonstration. But Inventor Winnek and the Navy hope to adapt it to colored lithography and to movies, so that human beings on paper or screen will be almost warm with life...
Under the title of "Foreground," a new literary magazine will be published quarterly, starting this December, by several graduate students of the English department...
...editors have issued a policy statement to the effect that" 'Foreground' has no political or sectional bias but is dedicated to an expression and examination of the cultural foreground." The magazine will contain fiction, poetry, and literary criticism written by both known and new writers, American and foreign. Special attention will be paid to contributions from authors who have not yet established literary reputations...
...purpose of soliciting manuscripts and prompting sales, "Foreground" has established "reader" contacts in eleven leading American universities, including Mark Schorer at the University of California and Wallace Stegner at Stanford University, both-formerly with the English department...
...rich in detail, illustrated with 16 fine photographs and sketches. Its careful report of intellectual brutality, spite, frauds, lawsuits, jealousies, of poems and letters destroyed, attempted blackmail fabrications and hoarded literary wealth, would be almost unbearable if it were not for the glimpses of Emily one gets beyond the foreground quarrels, as the townspeople of Amherst used to see her in the garden of Squire Dickinson's big house...