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...able to cover the news more outspokenly is that we have no hourly or daily deadlines to meet-we can take up to seven full days instead of one to make sure our facts are right, to fit them all together, figure out their implications and fill in the background...
...Your Background for Peace [TIME, March 22] has been in the background of my head ever since I read it. It has made me want to say something, though I have never spoken out before because somehow a person who always has to style herself "housewife" in a questionnaire does seem so insignificant. And yet there are so many of us housewives that what we want and, in the privacy of our homes, urge our men to strive for, is surely going to affect the peace...
Rule 1. The candidate must have a solid American background-as humble as possible. As birthplace, a log cabin is best, a farm nearly as good, the combination practically irresistible. For parents, the watchword is poor but honest. In the family background, a horse thief is fatal, a millionaire nearly...
...movies are innocently the most revolutionary instrument that has come from America since the Declaration of Independence. . . . The United States is now associated all over Europe (and above all in Britain) with a series of visual images that the European peoples find attractive. America is a background to the movies...
...cantonment buildings, a column of bronzed troops swung crisply from a company street. A band fell in at the head of the column, flashed back the bright Florida sun from its burnished instruments as it thumped the Army Air Corps march. Its song rose and fell against a discordant background: the muffled thud of shotguns, the crisp crack of .30-caliber machine guns, the sulky bark...