Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What they have in common, is not necessarily their background. Alwyn Lee was born in Australia, only a few months from the time that John Cheever was born in Massachusetts, and put down his roots in that rough-and-ready land. He graduated with honors in philosophy from the University of Melbourne, became a newspaperman, and with his wife, Essie, came to the U.S. in 1939. They are a rare husband-wife combination on the TIME staff; she is chief of editorial researchers...
...would leap up and say something like 'Let's go tobogganing.' " For Artist Henry Koerner, who painted Cheever in the room where he works, the assignment had no more than the usual subjective aspects. Koerner studied his man, and soon selected for the background the Cheevers' two Roman doves because they seemed to him to symbolize "the peaceful world with which Cheever surrounds himself-the early American furniture, his pets and the quiet...
...fortunate to have among us a man who is supremely competent. He is a man who, in the past four years, has been responsible for spending $50 billion a year on our nation's defense. He is a man whose watchword is economy. He comes from a business background where he had the job of running the entire Ford Motor Co. He is also the man who has been running our war in South Viet Nam, a war that we are going to win any day. Now! Fellow Americans! I give you the next Vice President of the United...
When he started prying into the background of the Hillside-Oak Park merger, Jedlicka checked the association's directors and major borrowers. He consulted independent appraisers about valuations established by Hillside for mortgages. He combed endlessly through taxpayer lists, and through County Recorder's office listings...
...read into the Congressional Record a story for the Chicago Tribune which stated that "the man behind President Kennedy's rocking chair in a world with war tensions, escaped military service as a conscientious objector and Korean War service as a father." For the rest, he remained in the background: what he contributed to the fabric of Kennedy statements was almost impossible to distinguish from the rest. "I knew the way Kennedy thought, and how he would say things," Sorensen explains simply...