Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disaster in Cuba, irresolution in Laos, and humiliation in space-one after another the blows landed, and even such Kennedy enthusiasts as Columnist Walter Lippmann winced as they found flaws in their onetime hero; the background editorial music, so bright and lilting at inauguration time, turned dissonant and harsh. Columnist Doris Fleeson, a onetime Stevensonian who had been willing enough to cheer for the President, now decided that "golden boy" had responded to adversity with "something less than the grace expected...
Seven German schoolboys, all 16, all in the same small-town classroom, are called to the colors on the same day: April 27, 1945. The first half of the film expounds the character and background of the boys with a warmth and sensitivity that soon makes the moviegoer care very much what happens to them. Jürgen, son of a rich landowner, is passionately proud of a father fallen for the Fatherland and boyishly eager to inherit his epaulets. Walter is a bit of a bully who takes after his boodle-grabbing, dirndl-lifting father, the local Nazi Kreisleiter...
...bears much the same relationship to a year as a newsmagazine like Time bears to a week's worth of world news. The subject matter it tries to cover is simply too big for its resources, and it must resort to generalization to conceal its lack of depth and background. This is quite all right if the yearbook or newsmagazine approaches its nearly impossible task modestly, but both 325 and Time are anything but modest. They not only attempt to cover too much in too little space, but also presume to judge and analyze their subjects. It is not surprising...
...Crimson cannot afford a repeat of this winter's weight throw tragedy when the same performers meet again in the hammer throw. Stan Doten and Ted Bailey should be first and second, and Roger Wilson should place. But Jud Sage of Navy looms in the background...
Political outlook is a complex of many factors, most of them unconscious and involuntary. Temperament, background, social and economic position, education--all these combine to shape a man's opinions on public issues and public personalities. Rarely do most men devote a great deal of time to either reflection or action in such matters...