Word: backgrounded
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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According to Goodman, society refuses to take seriously, and to recognize that he has real in a real world. This chap and others like are a "youth problem," says Goodman, and emphasis is on their "background conditions," which one can manipulate. Thus, "the aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to reestablish "belonging...
Against this background, it is apparent that neither candidate's platform could substantially raise the farmer's buying power to the level which urban businessmen enjoy. However, one of them offers a gimmick which could very well reduce the grain stockpiles...
...statement of current Foreign Minister Eric Louw: "As long as we remain in the British Commonwealth, we shall continually be hindered by British liberalism in our efforts to solve the color problem and the Jewish question." In reply, Verwoerd sought to mollify South Africans of English background with a mimeographed letter to a million whites: "The struggle between Eastern and Western nations is such that both groups will grant and concede anything, including the white man of Africa, his possessions and rights, to seek the favor and support of the black man . . . We should at least combine and protect ourselves...
Because he was "always on probation or some damned thing," Jack Lemmon '47 used to play in Harvard productions under the name of John Orange. He has been acting ever since, although his eminently respectable Boston background pre-supposed a more solid career. "I starved for the first couple years out of college," he recalls. "That's why I haven't been back to Boston for fourteen years ... while all my friends were making money, I was making nothing, just waiting...
Huxley, in the second of seven lectures on "What a Piece of Work Is Man," contrasted the positions of Freud and F.W.H. Myers. The latter, he said, dealt with the positive, creative side of the unconscious, while Freud, having a medical background, was concerned more with disease and the negative subconscious...