Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think religion is a pageant, not a dirge. I guess it's my advertising background. I like what I'm doing, and I've never been sorry. After all, if I didn't like it, I could go back to advertising...
...this week, and that the flow would increase rapidly. But all sights had been lowered: the best he could hope for was completion of the foundation's priority program by Aug. 15. All manufacturers, he forecast, would be slowed down by the stricter safety standards. Against this background, congressional proposals for ever-bigger Government bounties to give vaccine free to poor children added up to wind and politics. Equally inappropriate, because premature, was the congressional love feast, exculpating all concerned in the vaccine difficulties...
...Basel concert opened, Mlle. Ginette Martenot, sister of the instrument's builder, started off with the Ondes Martenot. With remarkable technique, she coaxed from the instrument a synthetic cascade of notes, often shrill, occasionally pleasant, accompanied by a wildly modernistic orchestral background. She got a big hand from the audience. After intermission, Oskar Sala sat down before his Mixturtrautonium. To a tape-recorded background of shrill whistles, gongs, rattles and electronic drum sounds, he compounded the cacophony with his wildly incoherent themes. A third of the audience left before the end; those who stayed filled the hall with whistles...
...respected throughout Japan, did their best "to make up for the distance from home by being as American as possible." When the 16-year-old Reischauer came to the United States and Oberlin College in 1927, he was therefore prepared for baseball, basketball, and varsity tennis. Whenever his Japanese background did get in the way, he tried to conceal it. "When I hitched rides. I used to make up a lot of false home towns so I wouldn't have to go through a lot of stuff about coming from Japan," he recalls. Still, his interest in the Far East...
...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...