Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quibble, for Le Crime de M. Lange rises easily above its background music. The Telepix shows it for the first time in this country, and it would be a felony to miss...
Thus, the authoress of the post-card that sparked the demonstrations is a girl of upper middle-class background who, as her father informed the Boston press, had not a single clue--in terms of personal experiences--as to what underdeveloped conditions of life are like. No doubt, it was the function of myself and other members of the faculty staff that trained her and her colleagues, to provide some understanding of these conditions; and as far as I am concerned, we did so as best we could...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's race laws: in the background is Verwoerd's recent withdrawal from British Commonwealth...
...painful sense of loneliness in American society. It is not so much that a great deal is said about loneliness. There are listed in the index rather disappointing references to only five lean remarks about loneliness. Yet the mood haunts almost every page, like an insistent and sorrowful background music...
GABRIEL H. MARCEL, William James Lecturer on Philosophy and member of the Institute de France, will discuss "The Existential Background of Human Dignity" in Emerson...