Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Search for Virus. The disease detectives have interviewed the parents, other kin, and the doctors of all the victims. They have established that Niles has a normal amount of background radiation, and that the children had not had excessive X rays. They have taken blood samples from the families of the dead children and from the two victims still living, to check for possible leukemia viruses. Dr. Schwartz hopes to find evidence that contacts of the Niles victims have developed immunity to the disease. He believes that this will be shown if there are no more cases in the Niles...
...beach at Riccione when word comes that Eleanora's husband has been killed in action. Dawdling around the docks is Trintignant, who, thanks to his Fascist father's political connections, has dodged the draft. He is years younger than Eleanora, but against a wistfully romantic background of coltish gaiety, parental protests, surf, sun, and sentimental period pieces like Temptation, they play out a long, sensuous, foredoomed affair...
...British writers are tops when it comes to describing disintegrating empires. To do the job properly, especially in fiction, there is needed a sense of irony, a sense of loss and a sense of relief. Young (25) Novelist David Caute mixes these qualities with the authority derived from his background: he was born in Egypt, the son of a British soldier, and when he reached gun-bearing age, he served in the Gold Coast Regiment in Takoradi (Ghana), getting a good look at both British and French West Africa. The central character of his first novel, set in a British...
...background, scattered white liberals cried out for a change in the government's tough policies before it is too late. But deep in plans for Republic Day, Hendrik Verwoerd and his Afrikaner supporters were too busy to listen...
...society reads little, but listens to music with a knowing delight. Where the library shelves once stood, there are proud, esoteric rows of record albums and high-fidelity components. Where Victorian wooers sent garlands of verse to their intended, the modern swain will choose a record explicitly meant as background to reverie or seduction...