Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Kennedy in contrast, for all his magic with crowds and his keen-minded calculations during his run for the nomination, showed himself something of a bumbling battler during the post-convention session. If he had stayed in the background, letting Johnson maestro the show, the results in legislation might have been the same, but Kennedy would not have been politically hurt. As it was, he damaged his image as an efficient and forceful leader by needlessly exposing himself to public defeats, tying his own prestige to getting a doomed package of welfare legislation enacted...
...When some of the retreating demonstrators tried to defend themselves with rocks, a ragged line of police chased after them, firing from the hip: all that prevented a massacre comparable to South Africa's Sharpeville (TIME, April 4) was the cops' bad aim. Circling unhappily in the background, Lumumba's Red-lining press adviser, Frenchman Serge Michel, passed a one-word judgment on the whole affair: "Maladroit...
...country. He was not, in the language of the American criminal courts, simply 'copping a plea' for himself. He was copping a plea for the U.S. When he accepted his job-and at $30,000 a year it was an infinitely better job than his background could ever otherwise have found for him -he took his chances. Here was no little boy who had lost his way in the Soviet labyrinths. Here was a man on a high mission who knew in advance of its risks-and of its privileges...
...Columnist Colin Frame, "I resent the implication that we have no judgment. Dammit all, 99.9% of us marry them, don't we?" Britain's Independent Television News set up cameras on Bond Street near TIME-LIFE'S London office, and after some beauty-spotting (to a background reading of TIME'S text), concluded: "TIME...
...gone from defeat to defeat. Never in Belgium's memory has our prestige been so low." Similar outcries came from the right-wing Liberal Party, whose 21 helping votes have kept Eyskens' Social Christians in office and the Socialist Party out. Hovering ominously in the background was a growing cluster of quasi-Fascist splinter groups whose members booed Parliament itself, marched noisily through the street with placards demanding "All power to the King...