Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen scores of teachers take to show business like ducks to water. Five professors, after mumbling their way through TV scripts, headed straight for courses in speech. Dr. Maurice Sullivan, Johns Hopkins dermatologist, soon caught on to the fact that the best way to talk about sunburn was to surround himself with a bevy of bathing beauties. Dr. Heinz Haber, an expert in space medicine at U.C.L.A., is another case in point: three years ago, when Haber appeared on a Hopkins series, he had only watched TV twice, had never stood before a camera. He did an adequate...
Tuesday will be Museum day for WGBH-TV, and Museum and University scholars will describe the history, sociology and traditions which surround each masterpiece. Artists will supplement slides and motion pictures in demonstrating the techniques under study; when Chinese brush paintings are on exhibition a Chinese scholar might demonstrate the rapid stroking used in their creation. Dooley accounts for the astonishing TV enthusiasm of even the stuffiest scholars as "latent ham bursting forth...
Continuing CARE's personal touch--the recipient of every package will learn the name and address of his American benefactor--the arrangement will tend to eliminate the suspicion and resentment that sometimes surround handouts by foreign governments...
...Supermen. In New Bedford, Mass., after police recaptured Jailbreakers Charles Cardoza and Albert Vincent, the prisoners explained that they had not heard police surround their hideaway because they were too absorbed in reading comic books...
...dimension for pictures. Hitherto paintings generally have required the looker to project himself into their midst by an effort of the imagination: it was necessary to imagine the flat surface of the picture as a sort of window, looking onto an actual scene. Kiesler's galaxies can surround the viewer, as a room does: they place him within the work...