Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaker of the state assembly. The Republicans have dominated both the assembly and senate for 56 of the last 60 years, have held down the governor's blue chair for a decade, and last year gave Dwight Eisenhower a huge margin of 359,000 votes. With that background, the G.O.P. should be certain of electing its candidate for governor in next week's elections. But what was happening to the G.O.P. in Jersey should have been an inspiration last week to downcast Democrats everywhere...
...great Sphinx lay in fleeting twilight. In the background loomed the Pyramid of Cheops, majestic monument to human striving for eternity. Over the entire scene hovered the breath of the silent desert, the hush of ages. Then a voice spoke...
...Society, had a term for the Archbishop of Canterbury too, "The Strange Samaritan." The archbishop's rebuke to Roman Catholics, noted Father Holland in the Catholic Herald, had come just after some highly sympathetic remarks by the archbishop about the plight of the church in Poland. "Against the background of the Polish persecution. The Strange Samaritan has gently poured in acid...
...Houston's windfall: a warm-hued Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds by Titian and his brother Francesco, fascinating with its bright but strangely stormy sky; Goya's A Maja and Two Toreros, its gaily clad figures oddly accented by the sinister tones of its wooded background. Under Kress conditions, Houston would not have gotten the pictures unless they could be displayed in an air-conditioned gallery. New air conditioning was contributed by rich, young (40) Oilman John Blaffer. Said Blaffer recently: "I'm a whisky and trombone man myself. [But] Texas is reaching an artistic...
...floor in front of the TV screen, chin in hand"); that, when the air conditioning breaks down anywhere, "New York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against this background of strange visions, Luigi Barzini Jr., a distinguished Italian journalist, has written a noteworthy book about a recent visit to the U.S. which is far above the usual off-the-French-cuff reporting. Even so, some of the book (a bestseller in Italy) is disturbingly close to the old analysis...