Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilians: People of Tomorrow (John Day; $3), published last week in Manhattan, Dr. Tavares gives a plain, tough appraisal of his country that is bound to wound Brazilian sensibilities. Tavares is a descendant of the famous 17th Century colonial commander, Albuquerque Maranhão. Not many Brazilians without such background would have dared to point out so boldly that...
Working with Dirty Eddie, Cassard thought he could make a big boffola* of Will Y.ou Marry Me? The Gare St.-Lazare became Chicago's La Salle Street Station -a more appropriate background for Eddie, who played a key role in a plot more complicated than Crime, and Punishment. Eddie was sensational. Said Producer Vanya Vashvily: ". . . the worst director can't harm him. His left profile is as good as his right." But trouble started when, right in the middle of shooting, the farmer who owned Eddie refused to let him act at a piddling $40 a week...
...Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society "as a home for freed slaves from the U.S."; and you tell us that Liberia's current President is named Tubman; but you never tie these two facts together. If you did, you might find they had an exceedingly interesting background...
...politicos began to look at themselves in a new perspective. Until a few1 weeks ago, Navy Secretary James Forrestal had turned a deaf ear to proposals that he should be Harry Truman's running mate in 1948. Despite his obvious qualifications (residence in New York, businessman's background, distinguished Government service), he did not want to ally himself with what might be a losing ticket. But by last week he felt good enough about Democratic chances in 1948 to tell friends he would be glad to make the vice-presidential race if the party would have him. Just...
Home Life, College Life. The values he speaks of are pretty well reducible to the "felt distinction" of good families and the security of their homes, whose quiet rhythms made a good background for growing up. Parents were willing to be mature, to take responsibility; sensing this, the young deferred to them and were content to remain young. There was, he thinks, a more serene friendliness between boys & girls when sexuality was postponed in favor of romance. "Statisticians have yet to reckon the nerve strain in American life which comes from precocious attempts at maturity and painful struggles to retard...