Silent Generation is a label for people born from the mid-1920s to the
early 1940s. The
name was originally applied to people in North America but
has also been applied to those in Western Europe, Australia and South America.
In the United States, the generation was comparatively small because the
financial insecurity of the 1920s and 1930s caused people to have fewer
children. The "Silents" are
called that because many focused on their careers rather than on activism, and
people in it were largely encouraged to conform with social norms. Time
Magazine coined
the name in a 1951 article entitled The Younger Generation, and
the name has stuck ever since. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation
NOTE that babies born in the mid-1920s to the
early 1940s were originally called depression babies.
Since its introduction in the early
20th century, the
film industry’s contributions to the English language have been manifold. Some terms, along with the concepts they
described, were fleeting. Take Smell-O-Vision, the olfactory movie-going experience
in which plot-related scents were pumped into the theater during screenings; it
made its debut and last appearance in the same 1960s film. However other terms born in cinema have stuck
around to this day, and some have even broadened their applications beyond the
lexicon of film. When English speakers
first started attending “the pictures” in the nineteen-teens, movie screens were
coated with reflective metallic paint, resulting in a silver surface to better
display the projected images. By the
1920s, the term silver screen moved
beyond the literal realm and into metaphorical territory to apply to cinema in
general. This type of sense broadening in which something associated with an
object or concept takes on the name of that thing is called metonymy. http://blog.dictionary.com/silver-screen-terms/
Metaphor and metonymy are similar in various aspects but the major
difference is that if a metaphor substitutes a concept with another, a metonymy
selects a related term. So, if metaphor
is for substitution, metonymy is for association. For example, the sentence ‘he is a tiger in
class’ is a metaphor. Here the word
tiger is used in substitution for displaying an attribute of character of the
person. The sentence ‘the tiger called
his students to the meeting room’ is a metonymy. Here there is no substitution; instead the
person is associated with a tiger for his nature. So metonymy is a figure of speech. It is used in rhetoric where a thing is not
referred by its name but with the associated word. A metaphor is an expression. This expression shows the similarity between
two things on some aspects. http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-metaphor-and-metonymy/
Shirred eggs, also known as baked eggs, are eggs that have been baked in a
flat-bottomed dish. Shirred eggs are
considered a simple and reliable dish that can be easily varied and expanded
upon. An alternative way of cooking is
to crack the eggs into individual ramekins, and cook them in a water bath, creating the French dish eggs en cocotte. Traditionally
they have been cooked in a dish called a shirrer, from which the dish gets its
name, but
the name now applies regardless of the type of dish in which they are
baked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirred_eggs How To Make Baked (Shirred) Eggs (and
suggested toppings) at http://whatscookingamerica.net/Eggs/BakedEgg.htm See also Shirred Eggs with Mushrooms and Swiss Chard at http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/shirred-eggs-with-mushrooms-and-swiss-chard
2015 Toledo Museum of Art
Exhibitions
The American Civil War: Through Artists’ Eyes April 3-July 5, Galleries 28 & 29 This
exhibition depicts major events of the American Civil War as seen through the
eyes of the artist. Commemorating the
150th anniversary of the end of the war, The American Civil
War features approximately 50 objects drawn from the Toledo Museum of Art
collection and local institutions and collections, including a monumental
painting of the Battle of Cold Harbor by Gilbert Gaul that depicts
Battery H, an artillery unit that included many soldiers from Northwest Ohio.
Gifts on Paper from The Apollo Society April 10-May 31, Gallery 6 This installation contains all 10
works on paper given during the group’s history. Objects—done in charcoal, ink, oil,
photography, lithography, etching and wood engraving—include Paul Colin’s Art
Deco portfolio Le tumulte noir (The Black Craze) featuring a young
Josephine Baker; the 1570 seminal treatise Four Books of
Architecture by Andrea Palladio and the monumental, meticulously
drawn Clear, Wondrous, Ancient, Strange showing the four ancient
cypresses growing at the foot of Dengwei Mountain in China.
Anyone who's ever learned music probably remembers reaching a point when they just
played without "thinking" about the notes. It turns out that a
little bit of disconnect goes a long way in learning motor tasks, according to
a study published online April 6, 2015 in the journal Nature
Neuroscience. The findings could lend insight into why
children learn some tasks faster than adults, and could point toward ways to
help adults learn faster and to make classrooms more conducive to learning,
according to the authors. Not
surprisingly, motor and visual modules did a lot of talking to each other, as
slow sight-reading eventually became speed-playing. Subjects recruited other regions of the brain
to work out the problem too. That was
true for fast learners and slow learners, according to the study. But what appeared to set the fast learners
apart from the slow learners was how soon they let go of those other parts of
the brain, particularly areas that have to do with strategies and problem
solving. Any
athlete will tell you this: If you’re
competent at something and you start thinking about it, especially at a
detailed level, you’re just dead in the water," said UC Santa Barbara
systems neuroscientist Scott Grafton, who has puzzled over motor learning for
two decades. "Golfers talk about
this all the time. It’s OK for practice,
but not for performance conditions.”
Geoffrey Mohan http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-brain-stop-thinking-start-learning-20150405-story.html
International Astronomy Day
April 25, 2015
Astronomy
Day began in California in 1973. Doug
Berger, then president of the Astronomical Association of Northern California
(AANC), decided that rather than trying to entice people to travel long
distances to visit observatory open houses, the AANC would set up telescopes at
sites more easily accessible. Astronomy
Day now goes by the name of International Astronomy Day as events take places
throughout the planet. http://www.sbau.org/astro_day/default.htm
As the model for Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the
Riveter," Mary Doyle Keefe
became the symbol of American women working on the home front during World War
II. The 92-year-old died April 21, 2015 in Simsbury,
Connecticut. As a 19-year-old telephone
operator, Keefe posed for the famous painting that would become the cover of
the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943.
See the model pictured in 2002 next to the magazine cover. "Rosie the Riveter" is often
confused with another popular image from the same era. The poster shows a woman flexing her arm
under the slogan "We Can Do It." It was part of a nationwide campaign to sell
war bonds, but is not the same character.
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1288
April 24, 2015 On this date in 1800,
the United States Library of Congress was established when President John Adams signed legislation to appropriate
$5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be
necessary for the use of Congress". On this date in 1907, Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his
employees, was opened.
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