Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America's Cup Race (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The race series begins Sept. 15. This program develops its background, shows films of the elimination races held in August and excerpts from the two races already run by this date between the American twelve-meter yacht Weatherly and the Australian sloop Gretel...
...Morgenthau's background includes Deerfield. Amherst (magna cum laude) and Yale Law School-and a good war record: he enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman during World War II, emerged a lieutenant commander with several decorations after having two ships torpedoed out from under him. Picked last year by Bobby Kennedy as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he worked up a series of successful narcotics, stock market and income tax fraud prosecutions...
...loyal Moroccans took it for granted at the time that sportive Bachelor Hassan had quietly been married in the five days between the death of his father, Mohammed V, and his own religious coronation in March 1961. Since it is also customary for royal wives to remain in the background, the marriage was never announced or acknowledged. "If the King has a child," purred a Moroccan diplomat last week, "that is his personal affair." In Rome, where he posed proudly with the baby and even bustled off to town hall to register her birth himself, Hassan said that...
...said, praising the serenity and balance of Greek art. "To them, we would be truly barbarians. In the midst of even the wildest and most whimsical [Greek] comedy, there remained that breath of greatness and of freedom. Comedy has become wisecracks. Very clever, sometimes even witty. But the background of greatness is not there, so the savor, the depth of contrast, is gone. The surprise, the fast switch, the shock, have taken its place. Unless there is a belief in the potential greatness of man, there can no longer be tragedy; there can only be melodrama...
...coach of the Hungarian Olympic track and field squad. Says Igloi, whose runners have broken 25 world records, 48 Hungarian records and 23 American records: "Any country I can make good runner-Japan, Germany, United States-as long as I have a free hand and somebody with a little background. If I have 30,000 bricks, I can build a small house or a beautiful palace. It depends on how I put them together...