Word: background
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background, the poll revealed no great difference from University Hall estimates. About 78 per cent of the tutoring upperclassmen come from an urban center, and about 65 per cent prepared at a private secondary school...
...catalogue, also, was a triumph, as few exhibition catalogues ever are (see col. 1). Slight, scholarly A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor, Associate Curator of Prints, and efficient Josephine Lansing Allen, an assistant curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...
...frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians, their reaction to "civilization," the lives of the railroad workers, and the machinations of big financiers behind the scenes in Washington--is vividly portrayed. Technical superiority, shown particularly in the handling of minor characters, has produced an authentic background; Akim Tamiroff, as a virile plug-ugly, is outstanding. To be sure, as much cannot be said for Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, who are pleasant but unnecessary; nevertheless, by virtue of the skill with which a worthwhile tlicme has been handled, a convincing and certainly entertaining motion picture has been...
...Spencer's play, unusual in plot, and construction, deals with an investigation into the lives of long-dead citizens by the government of the United States. It will employ music partially synchronized with the meter of the verse, and a chorus in the background...
With the French Revolution and the battle of Waterloo rumbling in the background, "He Was Born Gay" is a fantasy woven about the legend of the Last Dauphin. Written by Emlyn Williams, staged by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the leadership of Jock Munroe, the play shows thought and skill on the part of the writer, director, and cast. Rough edges were smothed, the surface polished, and the performance was well-rounded and unified...