Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbol came into being in 1918, following the formation of a new party constitution, and is thought to have been designed by Jimmie Middleton, who was then general secretary of the party. [For that original version, see cut.) The stylized version of the symbol that TIME used in the background of the Wilson cover portrait was prepared 2½ years ago by Jack Stoddard of the Labor Party's art department...
Musicians are a favorite motif. Her "Music Makers" shows a bald, pensive man resting his head on his hands and facing a woman, apparently depressed, who plays a flute. In the background, a girl with an expression of acute misery on her face plays another flute and a second girl stands with her hand covering her lower face. As in most of the paintings, reds and oranges abound and pale but acid greens and yellows dominate the faces. The group may very well be a family...
Occasionally the background verticals swirl to reinforce the contours of a figure or group, as in the "Music Makers" and the "Musicians," a variation on the same theme. Four figures, two of them flute players, appear again in the "Musicians," but his time all of them are women. Blue becomes the major color. The desperation has disappeared; a sense of calm prevails...
...turn produces resentment among newcomers, who feel that they are not really welcomed by the old crowd. The game of "class spotting," a charade around the infinite variety of right or wrong in speech or dress, is being played in Britain more cruelly than ever. It is against this background of class distinction, paradoxically both keener and less meaningful, that Britain's aristocratic Prime Minister will have to make policy-and fight an election...
Fallen Timbers. The figure in the background who dominated them all was Washington. As President under the new Constitution, he used the strengthened powers of the national government to prevent war with Britain while the settlements grew, to negotiate the eventual British evacuation of the lakes posts, and to appoint "Mad Anthony" Wayne to command a federal army to take the field against the Indians...