Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needing some background for his review, Gissen managed to arrange for the only interview Eisenhower would grant before publication date. It was to be off the record and was to last 15 minutes. When he was ushered into the general's office on the Columbia University campus, Gissen shook hands and said: "Well, general, the last time I saw you we were both covered with mud." Eisenhower wanted to know where that was and when. Gissen recalled a scene in France in November, 1944 when he and other officers of the 26th Division assembled for mess in the village...
...Bowen was 40, a homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell's day. The second was a book...
...children realized very much that these were bodies. The sight reminded me of a dummy my aunt had when I was a child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once the whole story-which I do not want to tell...
...Live Today for Tomorrow" stands out in bold relief against a background of second-rate "psychological dramas." The film concerns Judge Calvin Cooke (Fredric March), a revered man of Law who is faced with the knowledge that his wife Catherine (Florence Eldridge) is incurably ill, and the problem of keeping the secret from her. As her attacks increase, Judge Cooke finally decides to execute a "mercy killing," and one night deliberately wrecks the automobile in which he and his wife are driving. Immediately after, he confesses the entire crime and is brought into court. His plea of "guilty" collapses when...
...have read TIME for, say, ten years or so are accustomed to seeing departments come and go, or change, as the accent on the news changed. You will recall, for instance, that in the May 1, 1939 issue TIME'S editors introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that you would understand it better if we reviewed the events which led up to it. The week the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland Background gave way to another new department, World War. As the war progressed we added...