Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this inquiry, again the table revealed its value for boys of status and background different from that of the original test group. The Cambridge-Somerville Study included boys of higher intelligence, of better economic status, and of better home neighborhoods than those in the Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency study...
...peasant face of Nikita Khrushchev, looming on this week's cover against a symbolic background of the U.S., was painted by Bernard Safran, the son of a Russian immigrant who escaped to the U.S. in 1908 at 18, after being exiled to Siberia from his native town of Priluki (near Kiev) in the Ukraine. U.S.-born Bernie Safran studied hundreds of pictures of Khrushchev in action, finally painted the cocksure impression of a dictator that most Americans will best remember after the guest departs...
...background, Safran selected symbols of the strong, busy nation that Khrushchev would see when and if he had the patience and interest to look: tall Iowa corn; a white-painted New England church; buildings under construction in U.S. cities; an Army Redstone missile; a gate at Brown University in Providence, R.I.; a new U.S. automobile; the presence of the guiding spirit of Abraham Lincoln...
...surreal ravings still tell a real story -of a young university graduate educated beyond his background through the goodness of the welfare state, frustrated in a nation living in twilight, a second-class citizen in a society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter...
Golden Demon unfolds in a series of tableaux; transitions are sharp, symbolism through color contrasts more than obvious. To fill in some of the larger gaps, a narrator quotes (?) Japanese poetry as the camera sweeps over the landscape and the background music swells...