Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garry R. Orren, professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School, acted in a background paper prepared for the conference a that "reforms which shift the burden of registration from the citizen to the state represent a sharp departure from some core values of American political culture." He explains that "our voting system still rents on an ethic of voluntarism. We rely on self-motivated individuals to rouse themselves to vote." In general, it is not unreasonable to expect voters to show interest a month before election-day. Along the same lines, though conference participants argued that the vast number...
...scarcely believe what they were seeing. Egypt has been an implacable enemy in four wars that have cost thousands of casualties on both sides, yet there was Anwar Sadat standing solemnly at attention as a military band played both the Egyptian national anthem and the Israeli Hatikvah. In the background, gunners fired off a 21-gun salute...
...start a magazine. Samuel Thurston Williamson, 16 years with the Times and once its Washington correspondent, quit his job to join Publisher Martyn as editor. Last week they presented their product, News-Week, written & edited in Manhattan, printed in Dayton, Ohio. Their advertisements said: "It marshals facts against their background, throws revealing light into obscure situations-helps you understand the news . . . NEWSWEEK is today with enough of yesterday to fit it to your thinking for tomorrow." To advertisers an average circulation of 50,000 was guaranteed...
Death forms the background of Hemingway's tenth and latest book, his only novel with a U. S. background. But readers of previous love & death stories by Hemingway will find in To Have and Have Not a maturity which reflects the more serious turn his personal life has taken in the last year. For the queasy, it should be added that many of the killings (twelve) in To Have and Have Not are perpetrated with much goriness; for the straitlaced, that the book brings to naked print practically all the four-letter words extant, contains scenes in which copulation...
Coming through Slaughter thwarts convention every step of the way. Jazz in every style and mood drones continually in the background, and during rare moments of silence the actors speak and walk in rhythmical jazzy patterns. Bolden himself appears on center stage pushing the stops of his brassy trumpet. Conversations take the form of poetry rather than prose...