Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which add up to the selection of a U.S. Presidential candidate. In U.N., however, the debate takes place in front of you among the members of the eleven-man Security Council. A transcript of it is available at the close of each session. What counts is the research and background and the expert knowledge which, together, can unravel the economic and diplomatic snarls of each week's meeting and present them to you as a clear, integrated, dramatic story...
With the shift of scene to the invasion coast of England, the camera eye leaves the Globe, to return only at the picture's conclusion. Except for the transposition from "Henry IV" of Hal's brutal rebuke of Falstaff, a rebuke which seen against the background of the magnificence of the young king seems somehow more necessary than was apparent in the earlier chronicle play, Olivier has taken no major liberties with the text. What innovations he does make achieve a startling success...
...remarkable score composed by William Walton. One of the leading contemporary English" composers in his own right. Walton has contributed a score which so exactly captures the mood of every scene that Olivier time and again makes it do double duty, serving not only as background music, but as an integral part of the dramatic machinery...
...Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with pa-DUG-in) was the guardian of the British Empire, a product of Eton and Oxford, a veteran of four decades in the diplomatic service. Cool, clipped, careful, the former Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs stayed in the background at open sessions. In closed sessions, he was most firm 'in holding the line against the Russians...
Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...