Word: background
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certain course is selected by a student in let us say, the English department, perhaps the Old Testament, because he feels the need of the background for any adequate appreciation of English literature. Or it may be something in the Arts or History department...
...Author. Men, Marriage and Me was evidently "ghosted" (in large part), but the ghost has been kept in the background by Peggy Joyce's publishers, who deny that Journalist Basil Woon...
...present there are 68 students enrolled in the school, of which 40 are either undergraduates or graduates of either Harvard or Radcliffe. The course in Contemporary Theatre and its Background seems to be the most popular course, having a total of 42 students. The course in Play Production is next in favor, with 32 students, while the course in Playwriting has 26. Six students have been enrolled on a scholarship basis...
Walter Prichard Eaton '00 on February 6 and 7 held the first meetings of the course in "The Contemporary Theatre and its Background", giving two lectures covering the theatre up to the American Revolution: he also discussed the play "Contrast" by Royal Tyler of the class of 1717, the first play ever written by a Harvard graduate...
...Billed as an all-talkie,. it was filmed in India with silent cameras and later synchronized to allow an announcer to take the place of titles. Opening at the home of one of the leaders, the film, except for occasional cutbacks, rambles on with an unseen speaker and a background of music...