Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Republican minority in the Senate to 24. Because Senator Lundeen was violently isolationist and Joe Ball favors "all aid possible to Britain without crippling our own defenses," the appointment cut a bigger hole in the Senate's isolationist bloc. But bigger news was that Joseph Ball's background made him look like a new type for the Senate...
Directed by Rock and Roger Sheppared ocC., "The Family Reunion" is set in a contemporary English background and is the study of a family curse. Evident in the play are elements of Greek tragedy such as a chorus and the Eumenides, who were ancient Greek furies...
...still pictures showing Young surrounded by a dozen Hollywood beauties representing his marital score at the date of the picture's action. Most conspicuous in the film is Mary Ann (Mary Astor), while frequently present is shapely, silent Clara (Jean Rogers). The two others lurk obscurely in the background...
...course proposes to deal with the fine arts as well as the liberal arts, and to relate both to an historical background. The committee believes that the essential material of the liberal arts cannot be covered adequately in one year. It also believes that an introduction to the fine arts is necessary if the degree of understanding of the humanities, at which the course aims, is to be reached. But it would subordinate both fine arts and history to the reading of the original written works, and use them only in so far as they supplement or illustrate these more...
...accomplished philosopher, he will at least be skeptical of new and hasty systems because he appreciates the intellectual effort which went into the making of those he has studies. Finally, his outlook will be broadened and probably deepened, and all his future work will be placed against a background of some of the greatest answers to the ultimately unanswerable problems of human existence...