Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers will understand. A journalist who gives his reader simple but necessary background material departs from a practice which a great contemporary philosopher* has called "the tiresome pretense that writer and reader know more than they...
That is the Newsmagazine's job. TIME'S subtitle contains another important word-Weekly. That is what gives TIME the hours it needs to present the news with sense-making background. That the news in TIME reaches the reader later than newspapers or radio might bring it is an obvious disadvantage to him. Only if its presentation of news is better than the newspaper reports (i.e., sharper in detail, keener in insight, easier to read, understand and remember), can TIME overcome the disadvantage of being "late." When the advantage outweighs the disadvantage, TIME has a value; when...
...missed a lot of excitement. Most of the dailies panted through new crises with every edition. If Molotov frowned, peace was doomed. If he conceded a minor point, Russian basic policy seemed to have undergone a complete transformation. Radio listeners could almost hear the thud of hooves in the background of the conference bulletins. "Now Molotov's ahead. But he looks tired. Stettinius called a press conference. . . ." All this nonsense was so vastly confusing (and so essentially false) that many readers got bored with the whole subject and haven't read a line about U.N. since...
Specific reasons and background for the move were given the day it was reported to the College, "Class attendance," it was said, has been regarded "as a means to an end rather than an end in itself...
...small Irish towns where good-natured, bumbling provincials doze through their days in even rhythms, scarcely touched by the frenetic spleen of cosmopolitan existence, and only occasionally shaken into surprised awareness of life's complexities. While these neat tales unfold, Author O'Connor remains in the background, rarely moralizing...