Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Gladstone first took his seat in the House of Commons (1833), the Victorian era was moving in, pushing back into history the last remnants of irreverent, aristocratic Whiggery, pushing forward the businessman. In faith, in morals, in background, in purse, the young Gladstone seemed every inch a new Victorian. How, then, did he become the most hated as well as the most adored English statesman of his century...
...interested in the answers. Take the matter of geographical background, for example. The editors listed on our masthead represent half the states in the Union. The managing editor was born in Omaha, Neb., and the assistant managing editor in St. Louis, Mo. Of our ten senior editors, only two are native New Yorkers, one born in Manhattan, and another in New Rochelle. The other eight represent, respectively: Chicago, IL.; Tacoma, Wash.; Nacogdoches, Texas; Corinth, Miss.; Vienna, Austria; Milwaukee, Wis.; Pittsfield, Mass.; and Baltimore...
...Democratic national chairman, Paul Butler. At a press conference, after the New Orleans meeting, Butler endorsed a personal attack on Ike attributed by a local newspaper to House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn. Butler declared that Ike had demonstrated "his incapacity to lead the American people . . . His military background does not qualify Eisenhower as a political leader." If Butler had asked any of the reporters, he would have learned that Rayburn had vehemently denied any attack...
Special Blend. True to his background. Luis Batlle Berres carries on the special blend of liberal politics distilled by Uncle Jose. "Batllismo" is a pragmatic mixture of the welfare state and anticlericalism, seasoned with dignified friendship for the U.S. Under Batllismo, Uruguay disestablished religion so thoroughly that Christmas is now officially called "Family Day." The state runs banking, meatpacking, and fishing, sells insurance, operates the telephones, and provides free medical care and education (for qualified students) through university...
...spiritual state of an era as the churches. Broadway's most notable failure this season was Roman Catholic Novelist Graham Greene's play, The Living Room (TIME, Nov. 29), in which an adulterous triangle destroys itself in the helpless presence of a paralyzed priest, against a background of bigoted neurosis. In London the play ran to packed houses for 38 weeks; in Manhattan it lasted just 21 performances. Last week the Roman Catholic weekly, Commonweal, registered a well-taken complaint...