Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hurt by a two year hiatus," he said, "Other colleges might." One the other hand, Bender pointed out flaws in the testing system that would be used to defer students under a deferment program. Such tests, he explained, are likely to discriminate against men who are lacking in background; they do not measure a man's intelligence so much as they do his education...
John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, will lecture on "The Background of the Korean Crisis" at the weekly meeting of the Harvard Dames in Phillips Brooks House at 2:45 p.m. today...
Waugh sets himself to tell the tale of saint Helena--the mother of the Emperor Constantine--who lived in the third and fourth centuries AD, and who, according to legend, discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem. The story naturally enough concerns itself mainly with the moral and religious background of the times...
...background" of the painting, on which the convolution is set, is no background as it is in some places "fore-ground" as well. Thus it is activated to take part equally in the functions of all areas of the painting. This may be one way, I hope, to keep this picture "alive...
...taste on this side of the Atlantic. Gilbert Miller has provided an uncommonly beautiful production. Georges Wakevitch's garden setting is handsome; Raymond Sovey's lighting makes it respond fully to the action. Raoul Dufy has contributed six "mood" curtains, and Francis Poulene has contemplated the play with background music. The shortcomings of the comedy are not the result of economizing. Although "Ring Round the Moon" is not as perfect a bit of entertainment as had been hoped, it is still a fine evening of enjoyment...