Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...This is the first of two articles on a plan for "management-sharing" in industry. Today's article sketches the plan's history and background; tomorrow's will discuss the details of the plan, its present application, and its potentialities...
...interest the editorial in the CRIMSON on Friday morning describing the building of the proposed new Varsity Club as an "outrage." In view of a number of inaccuracies and an apparent misunderstanding of the facts, I have come to the conclusion that your readers would want to know the background which certainly must have influenced the Corporation in its vote to use part of Mr. Allston Burr's generous bequest to build a new Varsity Club...
...CRIMSON editorial writer had the background information when he wrote the editorial to which Mr. Reynolds refers. Shortly before his death, Mr. Burr told the CRIMSON he was not in a position to know the needs of the University. The CRIMSON is convinced that, in view of his interest in the University as a whole, Mr. Burr would not have insisted on a new Varsity Club had he understood that the money was more urgently needed elsewhere...
...propulsion was supplied by Groucho's trademarked wit, which tends to ricochet off the commonplace and explode in star shells of mutual misunderstanding. Beginning with a casual question about the contestant's background, Groucho is soon off in a blaze of barbed and ribald non sequiturs. "And do you have any little thieves at home?" he once asked a baseball umpire. Introducing a dealer in war surplus, he inquired solicitously: "How many times have you been indicted?" Learning from a dress designer that women dress for themselves, he observed with a happy leer: "If they dressed...
Munch described his self-portrait as a self-examination. Its colors-red and green in the figure, violet and orange in the background-increase the emotional punch. Painted in 1906, when he was already famous, it reflects the melancholia that continually plagued him. Munch's girl had recently threatened suicide because he refused to marry her, and when he tried to disarm her, she had shot him in the finger. He was drinking more & more, and throwing his weight around when he did. He had exiled himself from Norway after almost killing a man in a drunken brawl...