Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Richard M. Hunt, head tutor, credit was offered this year not because of a heavy work load, but because the additional hour of lecture "enabled us to present necessary background information. Tutorials can now discuss our material much more deeply...
This is the second year that the fellowships have been offered to juniors involved in Latin American studies. Last year five students did research in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina on such topics as the social problems of migratory Indians, the background of the 1952 Bolivian revolution, and topics in contemporary. Argentine literature. The grants are made possible through the gift of Albert Gordon and the Kidder, Peabody Foundation...
...characters so novel. The salvation of the fallen woman, Carol, after her final rejection of environment, friends, and lover has been told before; the twist of using the reactivated love of her crude paramour Morey instead of that of a new Prince Charming is the only originality. Hart's background characters are better creations than his protagonists. The two not-so-innocent visitors from Harrisburg are superb caricatures, as is the TV actress so enmeshed in her role of Alice in Wonderland that her husband complains, "Did you every try to sleep with The White Rabbit...
...both proselytes are betrayed by their family background. Young Thompson's mother is taking on with a lodger, and in destroying the lover's symbol of superiority, his car, the lad is badly burned. Fifteen-year-old Shirley (Sarah Miles) has been starved of love by her family; she lets a gentleness on Weir's part toward her desires to learn kindle a puerile passion for him. The passion must be dashed, and the result is an unpleasant trial of the teacher for indecent assault. Acquittal does not save Prometheus's reputation, and Weir is forced to destroy one principle...
...well-talcumed nymph lolls whitely against a background of Pepto-Bismol pink, her orange hair providing the final color clash that makes the whole thing undulate provocatively before the eyes. Another, in a great Flanders Field of a poppy-covered hat and a gold choker, stands scornfully akimbo; only the candid bareness of her monolithic bust keeps her from being some long-remembered Miss Gardner scolding the second grade before the class picnic...