Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jenners and McCarthys of the Old Guard to plow on unrestrained. It is they who must be understood, to be better combatted. The Taft Story tells much about their dead leader. White could now make an even better contribution to understanding American politics if he could use his background in Taft and Congress to explain the more difficult, and currently more important story, of the people Taft...
...test by Tom Hopkinson, free-lance writer, novelist and onetime editor (TIME, Sept. 15, 1952). At the request of Herbert Gunn, 50, editor of Lord Rothermere's racy tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 804,541), Hopkinson reviewed Front Page Story, a British movie melodrama with a Fleet Street background. After sending his review to the Sketch, Hopkinson was called by a subeditor and asked if one word might be taken out of the review. "What word?" asked Hopkinson. "You say, 'It's not a great picture,' " answered the subeditor. "Would you mind leaving out the word...
...picnic lunch. In The Portrait, Kasiulis mildly lampoons his own profession he shows a grave, bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed in red and green. All of Kasiulis' paintings are done in a technique that uses a jet-black-underpainted background to accentuate the lightness of the colors. And all his pictures, with the exception of six gay still lifes of flowers and fruit, deal with his favorite subject matter: slightly ridiculous but lovable lower-middle-class people, treated by the artist with gentle irony...
...slime molds, an historian on a History of Bukhara translated from the Persian, and a sociologist on a study of modern radicalism. Today, the humanists are still holding strong despite the tendency of the scientists to swamp them. One is now informally attending the Law School to get background for medieval constitutional history. Another is trying to make some "connections between psychoanalytic theory, existentionalism, and currents in modern theological thought." An archeologist in the Near East, interested in Iranian archeology, is anxiously watching that country's political situation, while biologists are contemplating the morphology of ferns, or gathering ants...
...Coach Bill McCurdy's Crimson, the gray, gloomy background of Soldiers Field was an appropriate setting for its sixth place finish. After upsetting Yale last Saturday, the varsity was hoping for at least third place, and it even had visions of a championship...