Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither he nor any of his contemporaries cared much about the social background or specific religious meanings of the work - and probably the more lowbrow avantgardists, like Maurice de Vlaminck, mentally reduced it all to mission ary-stew, bone-in-the-nose cliche. Not even Brancusi, whose borrowings of African motifs were of the most exalted refinement (as in Madame L.R., 1914-18, whose domed "head" comes from a Hongwe reliquary figure), had an "anthropological" interest in his sources. To him they were pure form...
...open the door of Johanna's room, not until Mr. Noon opens it himself. I've been caught that way before. I have opened the door for you, and the moment you gave your first squeal in rushed the private detective you had kept in the background." This is a direct reference to the problems of censorship and suppression that had swarmed around The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920). Lawrence here and throughout this long fragment seems more interested in the teller than the tale...
Collegiate was so eager to find out how old it is that Headmaster Richard Barter and Trustee William L. Frost '47 in 1974 sent head librarian David Mallison to Holland to research the school's background...
...Monroe Engel '42, director of the English Department's Creative Writing program, says. "We're not providing as much as we might" in the way of classes for students with little or no creative writing background...
...greatest accomplishment is his decision to incorporate Proust's epilogue to Swann in Love(not originally included in the story itself) into his film adaptation. The material shows Swann three decades later in life, when the devastating effects of an illness--and his choices--are apparent. Against the background of the new 20th century--epitomized by Odette's rise from risque to respectable--Swann is a decaying relic. Irons gives Swann the appropriate nerve-wracking intensity of a man out of time, whose tastes belong to another era. Through Irons' skillful portrayal and Schlondorf's careful direction. Swann in Love...