Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presenting this work, the Club will continue in its policy of drawing from as broad a background as possible. Continental drama, represented by "Adam the Creator," and American social drama, as seen in "Waiting For Lefty," have already had an airing on the Sanders stage...
Betty Fitzgerald, Radcliffe '48, will explain the work of the Conference as a background for the organization plan. Miss Fitzgerald was a delegate to the Conference, and together with Alice Gilbert, Radcliffe '49, she is co-chairman of the forum. The second speaker will be Clifton F. Wharton, Jr. '47, who will describe the national scope of NSO's activities...
...Badman" has painstakingly sidestepped one of the most overworked angles of current westerns with excellent results. Where the hero generally announces his fast draw in the first scene and proceeds to prove his point for ninety dreary minutes, John Wayne disposes of four men during the credit background and plays a human being for the rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs...
Basuto warriors. "You came to my assistance," he said, "when I was beset by many and powerful enemies." "Realeboah morena!" (We are glad to see you, Lord!) shouted the Basuto men, while their women hung in the background howling in wild, horselike whinnies. As four "Sons of Moshesh"-descendants of the "Basuto Moses"-stood proudly by, regal Mantsebo Seeiso, "wife of the first hut" and regent for her ten-year-old nephew chief, greeted King George. "We do not wish to be separated from you and your just Government in any manner," she said...
Boomerang! Dana Andrews and a good cast act out a real-life murder story against the real background of a real town (TIME, March...