Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marguerite shows up on the chaise again, surrounded by sophomoric sycophants, her elderly ducal paramour in the background. Enter Armand. With no gravity-defying leaps, but pedestrianly, and with a disconcerting knee jerk, he moves in on Marguerite. It is love at first sight...
...claiming to be at least part Negro. An American without Negro ancestry can join the club, according to its spokesmen, only by taking up citizenship in a "free" African state; this, like all the definitions above, is clearly a criterion for membership which discriminates on the basis of racial background...
...view. Negroes in America are in a unique position. They must draw upon history and their perception of the present to determine whether they can in fact become an equal part of the American plurality, or whether they must turn their allegiance towards Africa. Americans, with or without African background, have not found it easy to articulate or accept this conception of the question, but it is a question which must be examined by Negro intellectuals, and on their own terms. By publishing a magazine and issuing policy statements, the proposed Association could help provide leadership in a debate that...
Some students in American History may be asked to take a 100-series course, Wolff indicated, depending upon the background and program of each individual...
Very bad music has taken many forms. Bach wrote a good bit of it in one style; Victor Herbert ground out much of it in another. But most obnoxious of all are the mindless whinings that seep out of loudspeakers as "background music." Within this broad category are several subdivisions: airport music, Lawrence Welk music, dentist office music, Waldorf music...