Word: shading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This theme runs through all his work but achieves its greatest expression in Pale Fire. The novel has two parts: a morbid autobiographical poem written by John Shade, and a dotty commentary by an admirer, Charles Kinbote. But is that really all there is to it? No, argues Field, who suggests that not only the poem but the commentary are Shade's work: he has absorbed Kinbote's theories and has fashioned the commentary as an extravagant coda to his own poem. This kind of argument about a possible fiction within a fiction -essentially, the was-Hamlet-reallymad...
...make for a lecture hall and sit in the shade of the podium. Emerson Hall is recommended for this time of day no matter what is being given there; it is air-conditioned and the chairs are soft...
...Guiana's black, bored jungle takes an interim teaching job in a London slum school to tide him over until he can find an opening in his field. He meets with little race prejudice; the students hate him-less for the color of his skin than for the shade of his opinions. Stiff-necked, prim, always dressed in a starched white shirt, he tries to turn the kids into adults overnight by lecturing them on deportment and making them read books they cannot hope to understand. Like other teachers in the school, he gets nowhere...
Color photographs of the lunar surface beneath a deep black sky confirmed the findings of Surveyor I that the moon was grey. "The grey varies in shade from pale to very dark," said U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Eugene Shoemaker, "but it appears to be still basically all grey...
Surveyor had serious reasons for its frisky behavior. Rotating a series of color filters in front of its TV camera, it shot pictures of the soil scattered on its white footpad-which made an ideal photographic background. Scientists will compare the shade of the soil in black and white pictures with a color-coded wheel that is attached to Surveyor's leg and is visible in each picture. From the comparison, they hope to determine the approximate color of the soil. "We placed the soil just where we wanted it," said Caltech Engineer Ronald Scott, who supervised the experiment...