Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congratulations on your fine color reproduction of Benjamin West's portrait of Guy Johnson. On what authority does TIME label the Indian in the background Joseph Brant? There is no resemblance between this and the portrait of Brant by Romney, painted in the same year, or those by Gilbert Stuart, painted later. It is more likely that the Indian is merely a symbol of Guy Johnson's office, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in succession to his uncle and father-in-law, Sir William Johnson...
...According to regulations, the airman must have his commanding officer's permission to marry, and the British girl must prove 1) that she is legally free to marry, and 2) that she can meet the requirements of U.S. immigration, e.g., that she has no police record, no subversive background and no mental or communicable disease. After the girl has filled out the forms, her file is turned over to Scotland Yard for criminal and security check. Regulations also require that both parties submit to a medical examination...
...convergence of enemies on stage around the final duel with MacDuff. The actors played well despite an audience that laughed at murder and sneezed at terror. The set, a few bold pillars of rock and occasional draperies, is combined with splendid lighting to provide a strong yet quickly flexible background for this generally first-rate production...
...within the Labour party generated some bitterness among old-line Socialists, nonetheless, bitterness that was not fully resolved by Gaitskell's 2 to 1 victory over Aneurin Bevan last year for the parliamentary leadership. For Gaitskell--the university-trained son of a middle-class family--not only represents a background that can rankle a tobacco-chewing coal miner like Nye Bevan or a sidewalk hawker like Herbert Morrison, but his Socialist ideas diverge markedly in some respects from "orthodox" party doctrine. Yet Gaitskell's friends feel that his academic training has done him no harm, because he has been able...
Granted, Gaitskell has been able to "surmount" the initial political weaknesses of his personality and background, but many English observers feel that he continues to react to political situations as the academician that he is. "He seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining...