Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...technical help and money were coming to Educator Scholl from all over Europe. She had a big new project in mind: a daytime college for 150 students to study journalism, radio, city planning, etc. "Our aim," she explained, "is to send experts into society with a democratically oriented background. German specialists in the past have been too buried in their work to care who or what they were doing it for." The experimental college would be called "The Brother and Sister Scholl University...
...second speaker at the job conference, Victor Borella, vice-president in charge of operations of Rockefeller Center, Inc., urged students interested in personnel work to gain background for their careers by trying several jobs to get to know the problems of the personnel they will eventually be handling...
...informal gathering of one of the 160 organizations listed as subversive, is he himself guilty of holding every view that particular organization nourishes? Second, on the Harvard level, if the certificate is usually administered to incoming students, one might think it would pertain only to a pre-Harvard background; but will NROTC students later be asked to renew their certificates as a check on what they have done since coming to College? Finally, shouldn't there at least be a set of criteria for any future widening of the list of organizations considered as "subversive?" None exist...
...camera looks at all this with a pleasing reticence instead of peering open-mouthed at people and events as movie cameras are often prone to do. It is aided by Dmitri Tionkin's dissonant musical background which somehow manages to underline rather than intrude...
...possession of Hollywood, but the college got into the act in fine style. Ivy Films, post-war undergraduate organization, finished its first production and sold out the University Theatre for a special world premiere. Metro Goldwyn Mayor kept a star and production crew in the Yard four days taking background shots for a murder mystery "semi documentary" featuring the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine...