Word: foregrounded
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...depicts Hector's wife at the moment when she is being dragged away from Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When his eyes were assailed by this dreadful representation, John S. Sumner whistled with dismay and wrote as follows to Nathan Levy, the art dealer in whose window the Andromache had been conspicuously hung...
Shortly after their arrival last night from New York, Erika and Klaus Mann, noted Germans who are actively interested in the international youth movement, told a CRIMSON reporter that "the main purpose of the movement is to bring the youth of today into the foreground in the eyes of the elder generation, and not to have it lurk in the background as a force that may be of importance when it grows up. Mr. and Miss Mann will speak on "The Situation of the Young European" at 8 o'clock this evening in Emerson...
...they drove about the city in an open car to see and to be soon. For the official reception a painting of the Free State President, decorated in red, white, blue, and green, with appropriate mottoes in Gaelic and English beneath, left the right atmosphere, keeping in the foreground the bond of sympathy that exists between Chicago and Ireland. Such was the spirit of the day. President Cosgrave is quoted to the effect, that Mayor Thompson would be an effective member of his cabinet, if he were in it, Mayor Thompson on his side told of the plans...
...Governor Smith's position as a potential nominee seems to be still somewhat clouded, and if cannot bue be regretted that the Wet issue seems to be still dangerously entangled with religious prejudice. This aspect of the problem, always in the foreground, but heretofore rather problematical in its significance, has recently taken a more definite shape, and where anti-Catholic prejudice seemed to have been some what alloyed, it is now logical to expect that this factor will again come into prominence. A recent editorial in Osservatore Romano, the official mouthpiece of the Vatican, is reported as being an attack...
...foreground is the judges' boat; beyond the Volant is one of the boats of the Union Boat Club. And the gentleman pullnig the extremely narrow one is Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet who is very partial to this manly exercise for which so city in the world has such facilities as Boston, the fine expanse of the Charles River being unimpeded by navigation and daugors incident to the passage of steamers...