Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shown on the cover before a background of the Labor Party's modernized symbol...
ALMOST every TIME story draws deeply on background material, and this week's cover story on British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson is a special example. London Political Correspondent Honor Balfour has known Wilson since both were students at Oxford, where she was president of the Liberal Club while he was a member. She recalled that "he would scurry along The Broad to committee meetings, gown ballooning in the wind, usually with an armful of books, a cheery little chap with a round, cherubic face like a pink scrubbed cherry stone and a little forelock of short-cropped hair...
Huxley is clearly advocating a kind of hybridization of concepts, a fruitful interchange and assimilation of ideas. It requires, on both sides, some solid general education--the kind which could easily be taught in a decent secondary school. The limited communication possible with such a background must be recognized for what it is, but certainly should not be deplored. It can be useful, while somewhat deeper (higher level) communication might not necessarily be more valuable. There does seem to be a point of diminishing returns for a general education program, and we must accept as inevitable the fact that...
...calling for inaction and background financial support from the whites. We're not after country clubs or moving into exclusive suburba. We want more Negro truck drivers. Our goals are selfish and parochial; our organizational structure is undemocratic. This is the way we want to do things, and I think this is the way we have to do them. Things had better change or, I'm afraid, something will happen...
Excellent photography accentuates the subtle characterizations. Dramatic, almost surrealistic rugby shots emphasize the players' brutality. Even shots of background scenery contribute to the characterization. When withdrawn and upset, Mrs. Hammond appears in front of a blurred, ruined abbey; when relaxed, she stands in the midst of an idyllic country scene...