Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...University of North Carolina, moved back to Detroit, started attending political meetings because "it was a good way to build up a law practice." One day in 1954, Democratic leaders casually invited him to run for the state senate. "They came around looking for someone with an impeccable background, preferably a war hero. I decided I had nothing to lose." He won, at 29 became the youngest state senator in Michigan history. In Lansing, he rolled up a reputation as an earnest, ever-smiling Democrat who never skipped a session and rarely missed a chance to run an errand...
...between Nixon and his press followers. Four years ago, when Nixon was stumping for President Eisenhower's and his own reelection, the press corps flew in the same plane, mixed in easy camaraderie with a Nixon who regularly emerged, sometimes in pajamas, for bantering strolls down the aisle. Background conferences were common; at them the Vice President frequently confided headline-making information that the newsmen could use without identifying the source...
Candor for Reporters. The new mood had its origin last May when a column by New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston challenged the honesty of the Nixon "background conferences," which let Nixon say things anonymously that he would be most reluctant to say in public, e.g., criticism of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Benson. Angry, Nixon suspended the background sessions, and the Nixon camp took on the wary formality that still prevails...
Controlled Chance. The Concerto consisted of three movements, actually written down for the orchestra by different members of the ensemble and "edited" by Foss. The music was rather faceless-tricked out with a full Modern Composer's Kit of dissonances, rhythmic angularities, splashy climaxes. Against this background, Foss and the ensemble worked out their improvisations. It was in the Intermezzo, when the orchestra was silent, that Foss's technique of "controlled chance" came into fullest play. The Foss ensemble was free to improvise -and it did, with some highly interesting results. The instruments traded themes, stitched their...
Welsh unrest during the 19th century provides the background for Cordell's romance novels, which relate the doings and stewings of a wild country clan called the Mortymers. The present book, sequel to The Rape of the Fair Country, moves the Mortymers to the coal-mining and farming town of Carmarthen in time for the Rebecca riots of 1839-44. Strapping young Jethro, the book's hero, joins the night-riding Rebeccas-angry farmers who black their faces and wear their wives' nightgowns to raid the hated tollgates, which devour profits on produce taken to market...