Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Vietnamese. Said he: "I promise you that by the end of the year we will have a democratic regime and a national assembly." By way of ensuring this desirable result, the ballot card photographs had been thoughtfully chosen: that of Bao Dai in mandarin robes against a green background. Premier Diem in civilian clothes against a red background. "You might call it coincidental. I suppose," said a government official, "but in Viet Nam red is considered a lucky color and green an unlucky...
...dream come true for the entire nation. When K.M.A. was founded in 1951, the South Korean army officers' corps had as confusing a background as the country's history itself. Some officers had been trained with the Japanese. Some had served with the Chinese Nationalists, a few had been taught by German military advisers, still others had gone to the U.S. or had taken short R.O.T.C. courses. In 1951, with $500 out of his own pocket. Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet started the drive for a permanent academy...
American suburbs are growing so quickly, says Winter, and suburbanites are joining the churches so fast that there is not enough time to indoctrinate new members as Christians. "Despite a nominal church background, this is an unconverted, untrained mass of people who make the problem of church membership comparable to what it was in the time of Constantine, when Christianity became a recognized institution of Roman society . . . Moreover, they and their clergy are too busy to stop to hear the Gospel...
Duggan is a master at painting the background of this drama-the clothes, the customs, the pageantry. He reconstructs the dialogue of his characters and reads their thoughts. But somehow he never seems to read their souls. Why did Becket choose martyrdom? In Duggan's view, Becket was goaded to death by a kind of perverse romanticism: as a Norman knight ringed by his enemies, he died to show the English that it was "the Norman custom to stand fast." This mutedly rationalist ending of an otherwise excellent book will fail to satisfy many readers. It shows, once again...
...Some of the recently inaugurated internship plans underestimate the importance of systematic study in education. Internship, properly conceived," he said, "assumes a considerable professional background based on study, observation, and guided experience in dealing with limited problems...