Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders disclaim any thought of war and then whip out their offensive plans--just in case. Allied generals hold each other in highest contempt, refusing to speak the other's language--until they receive medals. And the audience remembers that "Its a Long Way to Tipperary." But in the background a neon sign chronicles the facts: ALLIES DEFEATED--150,000 CASUALTIES, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT--30,000 DEAD IN THE TRENCHES...
...Chaucer are arrayed as food for thought in lunchtime English 115, and similarly important Greek literature is studied in Greek 112. Applied Math. 206, "Applied Discrete Mathematics," is a course for which "no specific preparation is suggested, but it is important that the student have a good mathematical background"; clearly, without such a background, he might be indiscrete...
...everything it wants," warned Knight in his first speech. "The fact remains that much has been given us, and much will be expected. We dare not be satisfied until we are a national force in every field which legitimately concerns us." With his New England and Middle Western background, Douglas Knight should know how to forge a national force from his growing but still regional university...
...Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new half-hour edition of news and background...
...David Martin's reposed Ben Franklin watched over by a bust of Isaac Newton, and Henry Inman's winsome 1842 portrait of Angelica Van Buren, President Van Buren's daughter-in-law, with a view of Hiram Powers' bust of the President himself in the background...