Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...effects were fairly routine: the railing voices of Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Vishinsky contrasted with the country-lawyer diction of U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. But others achieved a vivid reality, e.g., the flat, unemotional American voices recorded in a command post against the background of artillery fire, and the bitter comment of a wounded marine. There was deep sonority in Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. Says Friendly: "One of the nation's troubles is that there's been no one to listen to-no Roosevelt, no Churchill...
...should like to commend you for your very excellent article on the Soviet Union's economic, as well as social and political war potential ["Background for War"-TIME...
Against this background last week Dutch and Indonesian representatives met in The Hague for the parley that would determine Irian's destiny. Soekarno's men, led by Foreign Minister Mohamed Rum, demanded control within six months. Led by Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker, The Netherlands' men testily replied that they could not negotiate on the basis of such a proposal. They argued, in effect, that they were more capable and responsible colonial administrators than the untried Indonesians, and that West New Guinea's primitive inhabitants needed their benevolent aid. "Whoever calls this task of civilization colonialism...
...Woman of Means, Peter Taylor wrote a mature and modest first book about a difficult boy-stepmother relationship. Hans Ruesch tried an offbeat background and brought off a vivid story of Eskimo manners & morals in Top of the World. Most polished of the preciousness school novels was A Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize...
Experienced. In Grand Prairie, Texas, while filling in an application for work at the Chance-Vought aircraft plant, an applicant came to the section on military background, answered the "Dates in Service" blank with: "Girls from Memphis, Tenn. to Hot Springs...