Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Troikas & Sapphires. That is fact, but in much of Rubinstein's biography the New York police found it hard to separate fact from fabrication. He was born in St. Petersburg where his father, he said, was financial adviser to the monk Rasputin-a background hardly calculated to recommend Serge to the business world; it was as if a clergyman told his colleagues that his father used to be chaplain to King Kong...
...Decca). A combination of German Weltschmerz and Latin languor that is not so odd as it seems. Songstress Valente was - born in Paris of an Italian father and a French mother, and lives in Germany. She sings Ernesto Lecuona's famous Cuban ditty in German with an elegant background of ghostly strings, muted brasses and castanets, and the result is stunning. Bestseller bound...
...Grand Prize (by Ronald Alexander) is a modern-style romantic comedy about a bachelor boss and his young secretary. That is to say, it is never for a moment soppily romantic: against a sophisticated Manhattan background, with flecks of satiric nonsense in the air, the parties concerned keep sex at fingernail's distance in the process of arriving at marriage. There is also a modern-style fillip to the plot: by way of a TV program, the secretary becomes her boss's boss for a day-and starts him off mixing the drinks, cleaning the apartment and doing...
...Students with an exceptionally strong secondary school background have been encouraged to take advanced courses in the freshman year. Now, if their work remains of honors quality, they will be free to substitute individual work for one or two formal courses during their junior and seniors years," Hanson added...
...page's society? The New York Times and Herald Tribune still report on the Social Registerites. But they also print all the announcements they have room for about the engagements, weddings, births, parties, etc.. of others who are "eligible in terms of their respectability, accomplishment and educational background." For the other papers, society is a mixture of Social Registerites, café society and stage, screen and other entertainers...