Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PUSHED well into the background by the sound and fury of the Senate's great Civil Rights fight is the basic fact in the controversy: thousands of qualified Negroes in the Deep South are still regularly denied their right to vote. How, in the face of modern justice, and by whom, in the light of morality, is a detective story of intriguing proportions. From the authoritative Southern Regional Council in Atlanta last week came a detailed analysis of Negro voting. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Southern Negroes & the Vote...
...came in response to President Eisenhower's "getting to know you" invitation. Last week Pakistan's Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy arrived in Washington for a talk with President Eisenhower and a close look at the country. For a detailed report on the Prime Minister's background, thinking, personality and private life, TIME queried its correspondents in Karachi and New Delhi. In Washington, TIME'S reporters tapped the State Department and the visiting delegation, and dogged the public as well as private movements of the guest. Results of this study of the man who represents...
With awe I read of Piet Mondrian's supreme effort-when he painted a canvas composed of a white background with two black lines. One can only regret that he did not live long enough to attain the ultimate-the virgin canvas untouched by brush...
...Great Unwashed. Walter Paepcke's crusade to bring culture to the American businessman is a reflection of his own background and personality. As a boy, he spent as much time being tutored in the arts at home as he did in a Chicago private school. Starting out young in business, he put together the Container Corp. combine, pushed the idea of modern design into such areas as annual reports and office interiors, pioneered a new type of institutional advertising with his series on the "Great Ideas of Western Man." Paepcke started to develop Aspen as a sort...
Mondrian reduced painting to its barest bones in 1931 when he painted a canvas composed of only a white background with two black lines. He was moving toward more complicated designs when, with World War II inevitable, he went first to London, then in 1940 to New York, where he finished his study in balanced imbalance, Place de la Concorde (see color page). Entranced by the glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing...