Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the medieval backdrop gave the scene a curiously old-fashioned air. A scrupulous republican, Charles de Gaulle nonetheless seeks to recall a past regal grandeur (last week his photograph, in the evening dress uniform of an armored-forces general, was ordered displayed in every public building in France). And in the same grand manner, De Gaulle at Bourges took up the national nightmare that has haunted Frenchmen for 4½ bloody years...
...peace, as it had for a dozen years (while some pundits talked as though peace could come only by disengagement). Thus also was the rifle-toting U.S. Army, frequently the stepchild among the military headline-getters, spotlighted as it continued its patrol of the Communist land frontiers against the backdrop of the Berlin crisis...
Under the Metropolitan Opera's harsh proscenium lights, the interior of St. Katherine's Church looked sadly tattered. The backdrop sagged, and the huge carved chair from which Walther von Stolzing sings his trial song in the first act of Die Meistersinger was pushed to one side. But out in the cavernous auditorium sat a crowd of invited guests, waiting for another kind of trial song. The occasion: the Met's first public talent audition...
Manuel the Mexican, by Carlo Coccioli. Against a Mexican-Indian backdrop, a Passion play unfolds in which the 21-year-old Manuel symbolizes both Christ and the ancient Aztec God, Tepozteco-proof, perhaps, that God and Dios...
This novel has more combinations than the daily double. Against a quarter-century backdrop ('30s to mid-50's) are staged three separate plots: 1) the life and loves of Geoffrey Bliss, a brittle-witted English playwright and "four-letter person"; 2) the struggle of adulterous peeress v. straightforward secretary to find bliss with Bliss; 3) the tea-and-sympathy schooling by the secretary of Geoffrey's sexually insecure son Ludovic, whose mother is the peeress...