Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just the great face from Shoot the Piano Player that lighted the souls of Aznavour's audience. It was more the philosophical songs. Aznavour turns to his audience, the spotlight centers on his face, his combo establishes a quiet minor key in the background, and Aznavour spits out enough lyrics to supply Tin Pan Alley for a year. The lyrics Aznavour writes are "about things that people gladly do, but do not dare talk about"; before one song, he says, "this is very French, but then I am French." The lyrics, intricately rhymed manifestos, present philosophies of life; Aznavour delivers...
Several smaller projects will complete the COFO campaign. Some workers will do extensive research into the political and economic structure of Mississippi to provide background material for COFO's political work. Others--about 30 Southern white students who have recently joined the civil rights movement--will enter white communities to try to extend to poor white areas the movement's attack on bigotry, poverty, and ignorance...
...Ernest Gillespie, Acting Principal of Exeter, initially approved Alpert's lecture, but changed his mind after the publication of an article describing Alpert's background in Saturday's Exonian, the student newspaper...
...this is just about all the production has to offer. What would have been a fine background for an inspired Caesar seems wasted on pallid acting and stagecraft. Never is there an ingenious answer to the technical problems the play poses. Rarely does the acting become sharp; it never becomes inspired...
Silver noted that a majority of the 500 respondants felt that college had either not affected their Jewishness, or bad increased it. Many expressed a disinclination to express their Jewishness in theological terms, but did not feel that they had the proper educational background to substitute another context for identification...