Word: overlaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature, and his fiction earned him the Nobel Prize in 1946. Demian is the deeply probing tale of an adolescent's passage through various stages of spiritual turmoil to a final self-realization under the influence of a slightly older and rather mysterious friend and guide. There is an overlay of symbolism and surrealism, and a Jungian concern with the workings of the subconscious...
...movie ends abruptly here. Director Hill has too much affection for Butch and Sundance to slobber over their death agonies. He has partly compensated for the dreary pacing which prevailed earlier. Yet the awkward, and frequent, overlay of farce and social comment has marred an otherwise excellent spoof...
...England bettors, unfamiliar with the feats of this Mid-Western horseman, have consistently let the Van Berg horses go to post at high odds--too hig. Anytime a Van Berg horse goes to post at odds of more that 4-1 it can be considered an overlay, because Jack wins 20 per cent of his starts...
...given poll, he can call on a nationwide network of 27 field supervisors and some 3,000 part-time "stringers," who do the actual interviewing. His analysts in Manhattan study the answers amassed in the field, and from the tabulations Lou Harris then writes what he calls an "overlay," a summary and conclusions...
...worst, Righter's kind of advice is banality; at its best, it is a little common sense, with an overlay of zodiacal lingo. This is not to say that it is cynical; Righter and most practicing astrologers believe with complete seriousness in what they are doing, and their experience in dealing with human problems gives what they say some validity. In fact, two Northwestern University psychology professors, Lee Sechrest and James H. Bryan, reported in a recent issue of the social-science monthly, Transaction, that they found the mail-order marriage counseling of 18 sample astrologers generally valid and useful...