Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel Dostoevsky refers to Raskolnikov's "gradual regeneration," all, of course, through great suffering. The movie ends with a church hymn being sung in the background as Rene is led away in the police van. Lili is looking on, with tears in her eyes and an angelic smile on her face. This latter is more visually absurd than the former, but both are intellectually unsatisfactory in the way they warp the entire story to fit it to an artificial ending...
With his innate sense of what is fitting, Herter kept himself in the background during his first few months at State, listened much and talked little. After the often grating brusqueness of Herbert Hoover Jr., his predecessor as Under Secretary, Herter's unflagging courtesy and willingness to listen boosted departmental morale. But his occasional exasperated "goddams" packed a wallop. Gradually, State Department hands came to see that behind Herter's gentleness was a strong and tenacious mind. "I learned one thing," reported an Assistant Secretary after emerging from Herter's office. "You've got to know...
...Polikoff still remains awed by the composer's function. In 1950, he recalls, he played Charles Ives's Sonata No. 11n Carnegie Hall and called Ives's home to check a detail. While talking to Mrs. Ives, he heard the ailing composer shouting in the background: "I want to shake that young man's hand!" Marvels Polikoff: "Think of it! He wanted to shake my hand because I was playing one of his pieces...
Gene Kelly Pontiac Special (CBS, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly running and dancing wild to a background of a new poem by Carl Sandburg, a jazz jam session by Arranger Nelson Riddle, a ballet score by Peter Gunn Composer Henry Mancini...
...seven women working at a place called Dreamland. Among them are Mickey, a gum-chewing spend-thrift running away from a sordid home, Yasumi, a loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who despises prostitution but cannot stay away. Against a background of neon lights and haunting music, these women suffer, cheat, show flashes of compassion, and dream about escape. One who originally sold herself to support her son goes insane when the son renounces her. Another drives her tubercular husband to suicide by working at Dreamland to save him. And throughout...