Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patricia: Oh, history, but I'll try to get a background in English literature so I can combine it in my thesis...
...fear?" Because "since 1939, some 600 million people of some 15 nations have been brought into the Soviet camp of dictatorships, and in no case has this come about by voluntary action of the peoples and nations concerned." The Soviets talk of "peaceful coexistence," but against such a background, "mere words do not instantly or totally reassure us ... and we know that Soviet doctrine prescribes the use of such words as guile." If Communist deeds are to match words, the Communists can prove...
From 600 radio stations this week came a new kind of opening announcement. "The power of God," said a voice to a soft organ background, "is present and available today to heal you of sickness, sin, sorrow, and limitation . . . This program ... is another in the series on How Christian Science Heals, produced and transcribed by the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts...
...bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible choirs that form the musical background of every shot of storm-cleared...
...keeping with the CRIMSON-Summer School precedent. This difference should have remained one between the two involved parties; instead it suddenly exploded into an alleged attack on "freedom of the press." A former CRIMSON editor, working for the Boston Globe, got the story, printed the bare facts minus the background, and soon had it buzzing across the nation's wire services. Immediately, Campbell and William Yandell Elliott, Director of the Summer School, were opening virulent letters from alumni and faculty denouncing them for underhanded censorship. One of them came from Law Professor Zechariah Chafee, Jr., who had read enough only...