Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Informer. To some of his colleagues, his fear of Communism seemed a morbid preoccupation, a kind of King Charles's head. He was valued, nevertheless, not only for his firsthand knowledge of Communism but for his outstanding skill in writing and his wide cultural background. He had also become a genuinely religious man: a Quaker...
...Said of a strongly lighted background...
...embroiled in litigation that his services to the [Tucker Corp.] are of doubtful value . . . Under present management there will never be a Tucker automobile in mass production." The dealers wanted to buy out Tucker's controlling interest in the auto company and put in a boss with "a background of successful... experience." Preston Tucker said that he would step down "if it would insure adequate financing to produce automobiles...
...Letters" series began a restudy of the country's major writers with Joseph Wood Krutch's well-balanced Henry David Thoreau and Emery Neff's Edwin Arlington Robinson. In Nathaniel Hawthorne: the American Years, Robert Cantwell gave an unorthodox interpretation and filled in the background of Hawthorne's time with a rich mass of detail. Randall Stewart's Hawthorne was a more conventional biography...
...Fine, an assistant professor of Music here, took over from Koussevitsky to conduct his work. "Agile" and "clever" are the adjectives most frequently used to describe his pieces, but this has moments of seriousness as well. The melodies are gay and keep breaking through an orchestral background which flashes with color. I enjoyed each moment but felt an absence of overall unity...