Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornell instructor, who formerly taught at Harvard, emphasized the willingness of Cornell students to join in classroom discussion, a quality he found somewhat lacking at Harvard because of "inhibitions" produced by the dominance of the lecture system. While admitting that Cornell students often lack the secondary school background and the outward air of sophistication of Harvard undergraduates, he felt that the open-mindedness and "eagerness to learn" of most Cornell students provided a balance...
Barrows Dunham, Princeton graduate and chairman of Temple's Philosophy Department, was called before the Velde Committee on February 28, 1953, on suspicion of subversive activity. Dunham gave his name to the committee, but refused to reveal any other information--not even his occupation or educational background--under the terms of the Fifth Amendment...
...noon, those Spartan enough to forego an early lunch may take Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s popular course in American intellectual history, History 169. With one of the most interesting and varied reading lists in the college, 169 will emphasize the intellectual background behind U.S. historical events, as well as dispelling high school misconceptions about American history...
...Hutton was cast as an untutored cowgirl who comes to Manhattan, falls in love with a LIFE photographer, falls out of love, falls back in love again. But it was a fine vehicle for the Hutton bounce and enabled her to do her brash singing and dancing against a background of Broadway, a fashion show and an intimate nightclub. Betty got excellent support from a pair of cowpokes (Josh Wheeler and Guy Raymond), from Kevin McCarthy as the hero, and from a new French singer, Genevieve. The music, written especially for TV by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Buttons...
...saving of the child became almost unbearably moving as doctors and nurses tried one expedient after another to get it breathing; with each failure, tempers became realistically short, and men seemed helpless before the mystery of birth. The musical background, supplied by Victor Young, was a triumph of unobtrusive mood setting. Medic has the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, and most of the film was shot in the rooms and corridors of the County Hospital. The only noticeable divergence from truth came at the show's end, when a nurse asked the doctor: "Shall I tell...