Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...School of Economics. Extensive travel in Europe, a wartime hitch as skipper of a Navy FT boat (his brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, died in an air explosion over the English Coast), a brief turn as a Hearst correspondent gave him a kaleidoscopic political, international and economic background. By the time he decided to enter public life, Kennedy was a cool and detached young man and a political mugwump...
...time it appeared that Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.--called Cabot or Cab to distinguish him from his grandfather--had inherited his predilections as well as his name. Certainly nothing in the background or outward appearance of the cool, reserved, self-assured, but above all politically conservative and proudly Republican Middle-sex graduate indicated that he would one day equal the elder Lodge's reputation by repudiating his grandfather's isolationist ideals and working within the United Nations to secure world peace...
Neighborhood Theater. To create a neighborhood theater was Joan Littlewood's ambition as far back as the early '30s. when she was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. With a working-class background, she was full of phlegm because "there were hunger marches outside, and inside were girls being taught this tennis-club stuff." After completing the course, she left London on foot to walk north to seek her career, collapsed after 112 miles in Burton-on-Trent. scrubbed out a pub to get fare to go on to Manchester. There...
Author Boulle served as a Free French agent himself during World War II and spent two years in a Vichy prison after he mistook an enemy for a De Gaulle man. So Boulle knows the background of his latest non-hero, Lieut. Cousin, an intellectual, successful novelist and critic, who has delusions of heroism even as his unit is put to rout by the Germans. Running away, he still sees himself stemming the retreat, and when he reaches England in a small boat, he has no trouble seeing himself as an intelligence man who can confound the enemy. His boss...
...these considerations show that there was no hostility against Eisenhower even in the deeply regretted violence against Hagerty. He would have been greeted triumphantly if he had come from a moderately successful summit meeting and a friendly visit to Russia, as planned. Without this background--as highly responsible Japanese realized and immediately expressed--he ceased to be, as somebody said to me, a "messenger of peace" and had become a tool of reactionary and, as many still feel in Japan, militaristic party politics...