Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine and an old member of the Audubon Society. You might like to know that the bird in the background of the Evtushenko cover is a bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula...
...surprise that Barth came to spend his life in the service of God's Word; theology was as much a part of his family background as history was to the Schlesingers of Harvard. In Switzerland, there have been Pastor Barths since the early 19th century. One of them was Karl's father, Fritz Barth, an earnest, rigorous New Testament scholar who gave up the pastorate to teach Scripture at a seminary at Basel, where Karl, the eldest of five children, was born...
Pushy Mother. When this happens, there is usually an overeager mother found hard at work in the background, particularly when she has a daughter to worry about. Says a San Francisco woman: "Some of the girls' mothers are terribly pushy. At dancing school, there was a terrible hurly-burly about how each girl had to have a 'date' before she was allowed to sign up. Dating now starts at the seventh grade, but there were some mothers who wanted to push it back to the sixth grade and even the fifth." Adds Mrs. Charles Eaton, a Pittsburgh...
...financed Faubus' career, while Faubus has consistently done all his all to smooth the path of the Witt Stevens Company, the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Corporation (ArkLa), which Stevens controls, and the man's many other far-flung enterprises. Like many of his ilk, Stevens desires to keep in the background; and since nothing of the sort could be further from Faubus' mind, they are hand and glove...
Only a common soldier, Martin sketches no sweeping historical panorama as a background to his own adventures. But as an uncommon writer, the self-taught Yankee chronicler makes a corner of that panorama come alive as never before...