Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Underling the value of education as a means of showing a man the relation of himself to his physical and cultural background, Professor Wright gave alumni a "battle front" account of the University's position and how it proposes to change over the present curriculum and degree requirements...
Negro Staff Sergeant Gilbert Cartiero's winning picture (titled 0600 Hours) showed a pfc. putting on his pants. In bed in the background sprawled a tired naked German maiden. According to one red-faced bigwig, Sergeant Cartiero's picture might "reflect badly on Red Cross activities...
...Hollywood in 1937, wrote background scores for movies, gained fame chiefly for marrying (and being divorced by) Martha Raye and Judy Garland. On the side, he knocked out some good modern melodies: Holiday for Strings, One Love. The Chicago Symphony played his three full-length symphonic tone poems-Ensenada Escapade, Shadows, Nostalgia...
...heard save the crack of Roger's .36, the thud of dropping corpses, and Morina's trills of sadistic ecstasy. It all winds up with Morina lying dead in the snow, covered with stolen jewels, and a posse closing in on lonesome Roger. Far away in the background, the Civil War pursues its peaceful course, untroubled by the agonies of love...
Against the background of the vivid, swirling gaiety of Moliere's and d'Artagnan's France, Cyrano is the manipulated story of a rapier-wielding, poetry-spouting wit who lets his nose get in the way of his love affairs. An iconoclast, embattled against a pedantic society, he sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword...