Word: backdrops
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Against this legislative backdrop, MTA general manager Thomas J. McLernon said yesterday that he has held talks about Bennett St. for several weeks with L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative vice-President. But neither McLernon nor a spokesman for the Administration would comment on the progress of the negotiations, the first since...
Against this backdrop of "bafflegab," as Sylvia calls anything the reader cannot be expected to digest without help, her column stood out in bold and refreshing relief. For years she had been explaining the meaning of economics in terms that anyone could understand. Since no one else was doing it, Sylvia had the field to herself. As James A. Wechsler, editor of her base paper, the New York Post, has said: "Sylvia walked into a vacuum...
From high in the dome of the General Assembly Building, bracelets of light beamed down upon the people below. From rows of windowed rooms in the fluted concave walls peered the camera eyes of the world. Against a starkly simple backdrop of the leaf-rimmed United Nations emblem, the Secretary-General of the U.N. and the newly elected Assembly President, Ireland's Frederick H. Boland, sat like somber judges at a high marbled desk, while before them, dwarfed by the cathedral-like immensity of the hall and by their own sense of impending history, the delegations of 96 nations...
...life was a very Shakespearean mixture of the familiar and the strange, of petty peace and dark tragedy, acted out against the incomparable backdrop of the Elizabethan Age. Young Will had a far better family background, and probably far better schooling, than the anti-Shakespearean theorists usually concede. The Shakespeares were Warwickshire farmers, but Will's father, ambitious John, moved to Stratford and became a glover. He was one of the town's official aletasters, and donned the scarlet robes of high bailiff, or mayor, when Will was four. The boy presumably went to Stratford's King...
...played hard and skillfully on his reputation for mature responsibility as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, presenting himself as the statesmanlike unity candidate who can rise above politics in time of peril. Against the new backdrop of U.S.-Russian turmoil, he deftly flicked Kennedy's youth and inexperience. Talking to delegates and delegate bosses, he commiserated over the bandwagon pressures of the Kennedy organization...