Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Cautiously Blandino added: "This has nothing to do with politics. It is entirely religious." But to other Italians, and other churchmen, his gesture did not seem entirely devoid of a political background. During World War II, Blandino had served as an army chaplain in the Albanian, Greek and North African campaigns. In 1943 he had joined Mussolini's diehard "Salo Republic" in northern Italy. Does he now sympathize with Fascist principles? Replies Blandino: "A call went out for chaplains to administer spiritual comfort. A priest must not interest himself in politics...
Palmer Dixon '50 produced, while William S. Wheeling '50 both translated and directed the play. Background music was arranged by Elien Bower '50 and choreography by John F. Keough...
Ordinarily the Housemasters make assignments on the basis of financial statements that the students give them. These are incomplete and uncheckable, though, so the Center has taken the job of making a survey of the financial background of each applicant for a cheap room...
...Price of Union" is a book about practices rather than ideals, accomplishments rather than programs. In his systematic review of American history from the background of the Revolution to the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, historian-journalist Agar (Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal) is always on the history he records-for the opposing pressures and influences from which the events arose...
Darryl F. Zaunck has taken great pains to achieve technical accuracy. Background shots were taken in North Bornce and fantastic quantities of jungle flora was shipped to Hollywood to make authentic looking sets. If Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson and Director Negulesco had lived up to the standards of Mr. Zaunck, Miss Colbert, and Mr. Hayakawa, "Three Came Home" might have been a great movie as well as an exciting and moving...