Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kudos for your masterly Alice in Wonderland presentation of President Truman's recent OPA reshuffle [TIME, Feb. 25]. That's the sort of writing which makes TIME my favorite magazine-factual reporting agains) a background of timeless fantasy...
...have tried to review these various responsibilities with fairness to both the outpost commander and the Staff officers at home. I am particularly led to do so because of the difficulty of reproducing now the background and atmosphere under which the entire Army was then working...
...effect of realism, is heightened by the wide variety of characters brought into view: a Polish Jew, a German widow, a petty fascist, an English flier, etc. (English titles are provided for the eight foreign languages used in the background behind the Englishmen.) Yet among all these there is no villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini...
With these words TIME, in its May 1, 1939 issue, introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that you would understand it better if we reviewed the events which led up to it. The most immediate violent reaction to this new department came from Nazi Germany, which banned TIME for what it considered keeps...
...Background For War ran its course through the turbulent spring and summer of 1939 and, excepting one later installment, gave way to another new department called World War the week the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. (This drew the wrath of many of you for presuming, you said, to call it a world war.) As the war progressed we added Army & Navy and World Battlefronts, changed National Affairs to U.S. at War, dropped World War and, when the end was in sight, introduced International as the correct repository for news of the peace to come, of UNO, and of all the events...