Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cover of the Dec. 5 issue of TIME, the Nigerian flag is shown in the background with its stripes running perpendicular to the flagpole. [In the flag chart accompanying your cover story in] the same magazine, the Nigerian flag is seen with its stripes running parallel to the flagpole. Which is the correct...
State. And his plans ran into snags. His personal favorite for Secretary of State had been Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright. But almost all of Kennedy's trusted advisers argued that in a world in which Afro-Asians are increasingly important, Fulbright's segregationist background would...
Immoral Sex. If consular officials think a foreign applicant looks in any way untrustworthy or insincere, they can run him through the ordeal of Form FS-257AF, which begins by ominously barring from U.S. shores anyone who has been insane, had a criminal background or who "will engage in immoral sexual acts." The victim must put down not only his name but also all the "other names" by which he has been known, and list in order each street address, town, province and country in which he has resided for six months or more since his 16th birthday. He must...
Always in the background lurks the question of whether the Faculty Committee on Drama is seeking professional quality production or competent and sometimes inspired student amateurism. But there are more specific problems. First, the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee has violated its own announced rules in the selection of spring productions. Official releases have stated that the selection committee would consider only programs which have received the nomination and thus the backing of a recognized undergraduate organization. Yet they not only allowed but encouraged the two directors whose plays were nominated by the Harvard Dramatic Club to change their plays during...
...looms at the same tentative angle, and a tiny goat trots on her head. Almost 40 years later, The Eiffel Tower Lovers are seated on the back of a large fowl that holds a bouquet of flowers as it approaches the tower with a blazing red sun in the background. The man is dressed, the girl naked. Between these two pictures are evidences of a fantastic and fascinating artistic vision not always easy to define but always a joy to divine...