Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oilfields. Dulles chose Hoover to find common ground, asked him to find it in 45 days. The 45 days stretched to eleven months; Hoover winged constantly between Washington, London and Teheran, eventually hammered out a settlement acceptable to both nations. Impressed with this performance and Hoover's administrative background, Dulles picked him as Under Secretary...
Against this background, Kadar's Radio Budapest played dance music, interspersed with appeals to "progressive youths and mothers not to allow gangsters to enter their homes and fire from windows." Reflected one announcer: "How brutal and inhuman it was that in past days simple party men were attacked because they were party men." But as the week went on and "progressive" Hungarians did not respond, Radio Budapest's tone became hysterical. "If you don't go down into the pits," it told coal miners, "the workers cannot go to work, no bread will be baked, there will...
Born in Russia, Shahn emigrated to this country when he was eight. He grew up in Brooklyn, which provided a background for his painting and nurtured his social concern. During his varied career he has worked as a lithographer's apprentice, an assistant to Diego Rivera, a photographer for the government, a "commercial" artist, a union propagandist, and just as a simple artist concerned with people and the changing human situation...
Boris Chaliapin has again demonstrated his artistic ability in the Talmadge cover, even in the shack in the background. An}' Southern country boy will easily recognize that the pole arising behind the house is for gourd martins. Enlightened Yankees, how ever, will call it a TV antenna, and will assume that the artist intended to imply that the typical Georgian lives in a shack, plants cotton, surrounds himself with barbed wire, votes for Talmadge, and buys a TV set before house paint...
...brings quicksilver to a Broadway season still lacking in blood. A big London hit, Separate Tables is as much stunt as drama in effect, as much production as play in appeal. The author of The Winslow Boy and 0 Mistress Mine has written two short plays with a shared background -a small, drab, English seaside hotel-and a recurrent roster of guests. In passing from one play to the other, only the two leading players, Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman-and they vary garishly-have new roles...