Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial." The good always wins, the boy always gets the girl, and they are married in a nice church ceremony-just after getting the deed to a nice piece of real estate-while a kindly old homespun philosopher stands snapping his galluses in the background...
...undergraduates, the main interest in the new plan lies in the three College courses the department has added. From now on these will be required for all Architecture majors. With the common background supplied by these courses a good student will have the chance to overlap his last year in College with his first year in Design School, to get his M.A. in seven years instead of the traditional eight...
Drawing on the historical background of his first address, Stevenson concluded that even without the threat of Russia, the U.S. would be faced with "the revolution of rising expectations"--Stevenson defined this as pressure from the Eastern world for engineering aid, industrialization, and relief from chronic unemployment...
After two years in radio he was a man with a reputation. With Pat Novak in his background, he did a brisk business as a radio freelance actor. But the jobs dried up: Webb could not resist telling directors how they could improve their shows. He sought motion picture parts. But to the eternal question, "Got any film?" (any previous parts), he could only shake his head. He finally got a bit in an Eagle Lion production called Hollow Triumph. A year later he got another in a picture called He Walked by Night...
...posts in 77 countries the International Press Service of U.S.I.A. sends reprints of religious articles, news and feature stories, and background essays on such subjects as "Communism and Religion" and "The Growth of Religious Liberty in America." All 158 overseas libraries of U.S.I.A. are stocked with 48 basic books on religion* and are regularly provided with lists of current religious periodicals and new books from which to order. The U.S.I.A. International Motion Picture Service produces religious documentary films for distribution abroad...