Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the style shows originality in conception, it is definitely limited--as an extensive viewing of these canvases shows. Furthermore, within the limits he has set for himself, O'Hara often fails to relate his subjects to the background. "Morning Light" is an example of spatial confusion...
...faith of her Orthodox Jewish parents. But the sisters objected-first that the Beekmans had not been really Orthodox, then that the proposed Jewish foster family was not religious enough. Geertruida Van Moorst pleaded that the Dutch courts were putting the theoretical importance of a Jewish family background above the importance of the loving care she had lavished on Anneke. Replied the Commission for War Orphans: "A Jewish child must be brought up in Jewish surroundings." Retorted Geertruida: "The child, who came to us when she was two, became aware of things only in our surroundings and thus knows nothing...
...principal characters, set against a ballet-like background of black-suited functionaries running back and forth across the screen, are somewhat unreal, as those in fantasy should be. But they seem to enjoy living in the world M. Clair has made for them. After a drunken dinner, for instance, the materialist exudes enthusiasm as he pelts his own portrait with wine glasses. In short Clair has shown that there are pleasanter ways to criticize the advances of modern technology than through the grim didacticism of an Orwellian nightmare...
...content to accept the modest status of second wife. But she briskly moved her whole Solo household and her five children into Bogor Palace, began to entertain old friends, receive officials and carry on for all the world like Indonesia's First Lady, while Fatmawati shrank into the background. Whenever Soekarno traveled, Hartini traveled with...
...years' time in imperial jails during World War II, a longtime inhabitant of the marshy Marxist terrain between Socialism and Communism. For their part, the right-wingers installed as party secretary general their boss, Inejiro Asanuma, a big-chested, big-voiced union man who has a background of antiCommunism. He is a stronger, more forceful type than Party Chairman Suzuki. The reunited party's line: preservation of the MacArthur Constitution (which outlaws war), nationalization of some industries (e.g., coal, electric power), diplomatic relations with Red China and the Soviet Union, gradual steps toward replacing the Japan...