Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of Governor Langlie's stand on public power, a more appropriate background would include an expanse of sagebrush wasteland with kerosene lamps rampant...
Without commenting further on your Sept. 3 report on Washington State's Governor Langlie, I could not help noticing the background scenery on the cover showing a hydroelectric power dam and transmission lines. A picture of Governor Langlie against such a background is like a picture of the proverbial fox guarding the chickens...
...from pushing the Israeli-Arab conflict into the background, the Suez crisis, with its temper-shortening tensions and attention-diverting demands, was likely to provoke more probing and more shooting in the days to come...
Just published in the U.S. is a new Bultmann book: Primitive Christianity (Living Age; $1.25). Readers will find in it Bultmann the historian rather than Bultmann the revolutionary; lucidly and briefly he takes them through the Old Testament background, 1st century Judaism, the Greek influences on the early church. But in the last section of the book, dealing directly with primitive Christianity, demythologization is seen at work. Again and again Bultmann attributes to Gnostic influences what orthodox interpreters assign to essential Christian teaching. The problem of the future and the end of the world, which has come...
Louis XIV grows older. Over a subtle background melody, Madame de Maintenon makes her legendary stab at Madame de Montespan: "Last night I dreamt, Madame, that we were on the grand stairs of Versailles: I was going up; you were coming down." The King dies, and several deep orchestral chords seem to roll a tombstone over his entire century. Then Louis XV is on the throne; his meeting with Pompadour is set off by a lilting love song. Music marks a new culture, as from the palace windows twang the pure, shrill notes of the harpsichord. Explains Narrator Boyer: "Grace...