Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prognosis for the City Council heavily favors the incumbents, plus Walter J. Sullivan. This prediction seems inevitable, from the consideration of recent history. Cambridge voting simply follows personality, name, ethnic background, and familiarity, rather than issues. Since the incumbents have remained in the public eye, some of them for years and all of them at least more than the new candidates, they must be favored...
...philosophy motivating CCA members of the School Committee is heavily infused with the University spirit. Shaplin is himself a professional educator and administrator, but has resigned this year, with the common knowledge that he asked Barnes to run in his stead. Barnes has his Harvard connection plus a wide background in taxes and budgeting, both of which points he is emphasizing...
...recession year), Russia registered steady increases in production of pig iron, steel, coal and cotton textiles, while the U.S. lost ground; absolute production figures, which show the U.S. far ahead in every important industrial and mining product except coal and iron ore, are discreetly left in the background or totally ignored.* But in the last fortnight, as he meandered through Siberia on his way home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country was still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks. At Vladivostok, citizens flooded him with letters of complaint about inadequate housing...
...changed from the gloomy digs he used to occupy with his wife and two children in a house he got rent-free from his in-laws. Recently elected an associate of the august Royal Academy, and sporting a new beard, Bratby has come up in the world. Hit, new background is his own rambling, Victorian house, with cracked swimming pool, in London's Blackheath district. But the exuberant pictures of the disorderly, newspaper-strewn interiors and the sunflower-choked garden (often with the face of a Bratby child peering through the stalks) show that Bratby is still a glutton...
...Danube School," saw the world as a stage, but a stage of infinite beauty and variety. Head in the lap of the treacherous Delilah, his Samson sleeps in the foreground of a landscape that is as weird and as familiar as a dream. Behind a bare tree in the background hover the Philistines, ready to pounce upon the sheared ram of God. Watteau's study of lovers in a park makes black, white and red stand for all the colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery corner to Goya...