Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexai Haieff, a young Russian-born composer now living in the United States, was the composition; its value seemed to many in the audience extremely limited. It is dangerous to condemn a new work too quickly, but this seemed at first hearing to be nothing more than inferior theatrical background music which might have been used for "On the Town." Why Burgin chose to play it is a mystery typical of the whole in-and-out tradition of the Boston Symphony...
Provost Buck also cited the long background of need in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Law School for proper housing accomodations. At present a small number of men in the two schools are living in Conant, Perkins, and Walter Hastings Halls, but the majority of the graduates have been forced to find quarters in and around crowded Cambridge and, until the Vanserg cafeteria opened early this term, have had no common place to eat, the Provost added...
...successful in evoking the atmosphere and "feel" of a particular place, be it the unending bleakness of West Philadelphia, or the strident shrillness of a chromium-and-glass bar. His only mistake is unbelievably bad. In the otherwise excellent payroll robbery scene, the presence of palm trees in the background make the fact that it ostensibly occurs in Hackensack, N. J., a little tough to take...
...carry five courses including philosophy and government. "The general education plan," she said, "seems like the best way to get your distribution credit. Here I am concentrating in Physics and having to go over the fine points of Gov 1. while 1 might be getting a good solid background in the social sciences with the new system...
Singled out for plaudits were Norman Walkins, who hails from Hawaiian waters, and Arty Phinney, an ex-Exeterite. Paul Killoran, unique in his non-service background also flashed considerable speed. Killoran was a member of a Sandusky, Ohio, aggregation that won the state championships last year...