Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-portrait developed its own problems. Chagall tried and abandoned nearly a dozen. Finally he achieved what he wanted -a pensive ink-and-crayon study of himself with palette and easel, at a window of his studio, the characteristic colors of his beloved Vence countryside in the background. When Senior Editor Cranston Jones had the cover story and the color pages of Chagall's work ready to go to press and the last points were being checked, the master decided that the experience was "one of the great events of my life." Having recently received the red rosette...
When they arrived, both Goldberg and his wife seemed disturbed by the turn of events, but the President told them: "When a Southerner can sit in the White House, when a Negro can aspire to the highest offices in the land, when a man of deep Jewish background can be the spokesman of this country to the world-that's what America is all about...
Although Goldberg's background bears little similarity to his predecessors'-Edward Stettinius, Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson-all of whom were well-versed in foreign affairs before they went to the U.N., it seemed little cause for concern. Arthur Goldberg once said of the art of collective bargaining: "The main thing you must have is the ability to realize there are two sides to the story, and so to be generally calm and courteous in the handling of people in inflamed situations, but at the same time not to relinquish the position of leadership, which...
...conventionally trivial becomes terribly important in the bizarre world of Pussycat. The music, which comes alternately from harpsichords and electric organs, at times keeps rythym with the action so that the actors or cars almost seem to dance. Strange things occur in the background, such as the appearance of a group of Impressionist painters sitting with a bandaged-eared Van Gogh at a cafe. At one point the reformed hero delivers a paean to marriage and the words "Author's Message" in roccoco script shoot across the screen...
...Yemen never last very long. Two months ago, when moderate Republican Ahmed Mohammed Noman took over as Premier of the rugged desert land, hopes had risen that the three-year-old civil war might finally be brought to an end. Noman shoved pro-Nasser President Abdullah Sallal into the background, kicked the military fanatics out of his Cabinet and surrounded himself with civilians. Then he sat down to hammer out a preliminary formula for peace...