Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of isolated scenes. Even this impressionistic, kaleidoscopic technique might have created a unified effect had the production staff been able to set and maintain a snappy pace. But many of the scenes were punctuated with lengthy pauses, the sense of continuity sinking further and further into the background with each succeeding second of inactivity...
...Four-Part Setting - Ann Bridge -Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Peking Picnic, this sophisticated romance, with a Chinese background, stands out for its deft handling of romantic problems among the British embassy...
...Treaclish Warwick Deeping's Folly Island (Knopf, $2.50), a desperate romance against a background of British gardening...
Over France today is the spectre of another march on Paris, another siege, another occupation. Worse still, there is peril from the air. But a "peace" worse than Versailles? Excusable, under any circumstances? Practical? Suddenly Vag decided to brush up on his background facts, and resolved to go to Harvard 6 this noon to hear Donald C. McKay on "Bismarck and the Unification of Germany...
Professor Gilbert Chinard, of Princeton University, speaking last night in the Dunster House Common Room in the first of a series of informal House speeches sponsored by the American Civilization group, took as his subject "The European Background of Jefferson's Thought...