Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against this background of frustration and failure, the U.S. decided to back the U.N.'s latest move against Katanga, for all its undoubted risks. Last week Washington refused to go along with the demands of Britain and France for an immediate cease-fire at any cost. From the White House and the State Department came the line: No cease-fire until Tshombe agrees to negotiate a satisfactory settlement with Adoula. This did not 'mean that the U.S. wanted to destroy Moise Tshombe. He has a following and a talent for leadership too rare to dispense with...
...high-fashion model is a slave to the camera, a good set of bones to the photographer, another 10% to the agent, a size 8-10 to the designer and, to herself, landlord over priceless property. She is undernourished (a pallid cheek is a cosmetic's best background), underweight (at an average height of 5 ft. 8 in., she weighs an average 112 Ibs., so that flesh does not detract from fabric cut), and overpaid (no less than $25 an hour, as much as $120). Her working life is short-at 30 she may drop overnight from a cover...
...Indonesia, on India's own borders, and in Africa, there are other nations eager to sieze land in the name of anti-colonialism. The United Nations must work some way of checking what may become a new decade of little territorial wars, wars all the more threatening against the background of the greater, colder...
Racial self-consciousness is a step backwards in American theater. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1948) took an obviously Jewish figure in Willy Loman (dialect, family relations, and the rivalry with the neighbors' son suggest a Jewish background), but expanded the character, rather than caricaturing him, concentrating on the universal qualities rather than the special heritage of the hero. To succeed in 1961 (without really trying), Miller's play would have to end with Biff and Happy going off to work on a Kibbutz...
According to a source at Ohio State, the primary reason for the Council's decision was that a bowl trip would cause a certain amount of disruption among the student body. But lurking in the background was the sentiment of many professors that the university's image was suffering from the success of its athletic teams; to some, it was a matter for acute embarrassment that Ohio State annually tops the country in football attendance...