Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for ore." She makes no overt 'statement,' but the primitive-sounding instruments and background follow a sparse, dirge-like rhythm, mourning the destruction of a people. At the same time, the dirge represents the grinding advance of heavy machinery. The background sounds of animals and chanting crowds of people give way to the mechanical advance, leaving only a lone, hopeless voice to utter a regret in an ancient tongue...
...winning converts is that of rational expectations. This approach holds that the Government should not try to spur the economy through deficit spending and loose-money policies, since such efforts just jack up inflation. The proper economic role of Government, this theory argues, is simply to provide a stable background for consumers and business. Says Mark Willes, an executive vice president of General Mills who became a spokesman for the school while serving as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: "Rational expectations will become the dominant economic theory in the next ten years." Willes and his colleagues also...
Despite his background of Groton, Harvard and Wall Street, Bliss, 69, almost grew up in the opera house. His father, Cornelius Newton Bliss, was the president of a textile firm. He owned a box in the grand tier, the so-called Diamond Horseshoe, of the old Metropolitan Opera House, and he was chairman of the board from 1938 to 1946. Anthony attended his first performance when he was six, hearing Enrico Caruso in I Pagliacci, and when his father died in 1949, he was automatically offered a seat on the governing board. "I was aware of the kind of problems...
...analysis. His ruminations on this point like much of the rest of the book, sound straight out of a fourth-grade civics textbook. "Great leaders excite great controversies. If one wants insight into how an individual thinks and feels as an adult, it makes common sense that his family background and early years will often provide a clue. "The successful leader must know when to light and when to retreat, when to be silent and when to compromise, when to speak out and when to be silent" Future Churchills and DeGaulles must be snapping to attention...
...however, be initially confusing to millions of Nickleby novices. As host for the four-night series, Peter Ustinov provides helpful plot synopses and snippets of historical background, but he leaves some important unanswered questions for home viewers. Why are most of the actors doubling and tripling their roles? Why are characters breaking off a scene to describe their actions in the imperious third person? Why, when two characters are supposedly alone in a room, are other actors standing around watching them? Why, if this is television, does the camera occasionally cut to a theater audience cheering the performers-even...