Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CRIMSON readers may be interested to know a little about Mr. Steele's own background. I find half a dozen references to Steele in the index of John Roy Carlson's "Under Cover." Tracking them down, one finds the patriotic Mr. Steele being buddy-buddy with such fine un-Americans as Joseph S. Kamp, editor of a fascist sheet hailed by the Nazis, the seditionists James True and Liz Dilling, and John B. Snow, the "gentleman fascist...
...delegates agreed that their general aim was to promote the "reconstruction and development of European nations," first by selfhelp, as Secretary Marshall had insisted, and then through "the support of the United States, which would be decisive." The U.S., not a participant in the conference, remained well in the background. However, the delegates were learning what the U.S. meant by European selfhelp. Ramadier gave a luncheon for U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, who has become the world's foremost foe of trade barriers. After that, the delegates began to talk more about removal of European trade barriers...
...grow through the years from a purely local show, which featured only straight ranch contests, to a commercialized, supercolossal spectacle. They have not been too happy about it. Last week, when Hollywood's Eagle Lion movie company moved into town to use this year's Stampede as background for a new horse opera in cinecolor, old man Waines gave up. "They're exploiting the cowboys just for the almighty dollar," he said...
Unhealthy Titillations. Says Parson Hussey: "Artists are looking for firmer spiritual guidance in their work, and working for the church provides them with the kind of inspiration and background they need. Through works of art man probably reaches the highest achievement of which he is capable, and so such works are surely the most appropriate offerings to God." Art as an aid to devotion seems to him quite secondary: "I don't believe in providing worshipers with emotional titillations. I think it's a very unhealthy idea. But it's true that, as they have grown...
...kind of homey, ineptly-handled drama. One of the brothers, a self-styled ladies' man, marries, and brings his wife to live with his brethren, all of whom fly the mail. Inevitably, one of them (the kid) is killed, and another (strong and silent) is crippled, all with the background of Anne Baxter's rather mystifying marital problems...