Word: foreshadowing
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...State Department said stiffly that the meetings were primarily intended to tighten up U.S. diplomatic techniques. But some thought that they might foreshadow changes in U.S. policy, especially the "recognize-and-deplore" formula, which often works against the interests of democratic forces in the Americas (TIME...
...veteran of World War I whose sense of guilt (he won the Victoria Cross for killing Germans) leads him to pacificism and the ministry. His actress wife admires Robert but goes on loving her first husband, lost in the war. Their son and daughter, growing up in the foreshadow of a second war, find father's Christlike character dull. Son Adrian joins the army in a rebellious climax to years of boyhood revolt, but at the end, in the ruins of Germany, concludes that his father was right all along...
Lowered Sights. All this made the usually astute Wall Street Journal jump to the conclusions that the Journal's decision "is expected to foreshadow a reversal of the upward trend in magazine advertising fees"; and that subscription sales, as well as newsstand sales, were "sliding." But A.B.C. figures showed this was not true-not yet, anyway...
...picture opens with a long musical sequence which introduces the characters, starts the story rolling and seems to foreshadow much more fun than Summer Holiday ever delivers. After this solid beginning, Mamoulian (or his bosses) lost faith in the idea of telling their story with music. Songs appear infrequently, and when they do (e.g., Stanley Steamer, a sequence about the joys of primitive motoring), the tunes are strident and too tricky for the story's gentle flutterings over adolescent rebellion...
Juvenile Lead. There was no more in Clifford's early life to foreshadow this rise to his place behind the throne than there had been in Harry Truman's apprenticeship on the farm. They were both Missouri-bred, but there the resemblance ended. Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite...