It formed the background for the work of the young poets of the 1980s, such as Edward Hirsch, Alan Shapiro, Jorie Graham, Cathy Song, and Rita Dove, whose sequence about her grandparents, Thomas and Beulah, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
"It's completely crazy and mad at this time of year," says Michael Nixon, chief executive of the Newcastle West End Food Bank, which sprang to wider national renown this year when it formed the background to a powerful scene in Ken Loach's award-winning I, Daniel Blake.
It's this shift of sixties advocacy and styles into seventies ways of life and thought (to put it broadly) that forms the background, and motivates the drama, of a movie that captures that zeitgeist with intelligence and verve: Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill".
And that imaginative picture in turn forms the background to all Catholic teaching about sexuality.
During nighttime expeditions with Dorothy, he experienced first-hand the terror of the blitz, which forms the background for "The End of the Affair".
The Iraq war, in its opening and apparently triumphant weeks, is analogous to the Black Death, which forms the background of "The Decameron".
This brief and sudden period of freedom and flowering, apparently the happiest of her life, forms the background of "Jenny," which appeared in 1911.
This forms the background to our study of the design of interactive educational resources and stereoscopic graphics.
The difference between the observed and model-fitted log probe intensities, after further processing, forms the background corrected probe intensity.
But the narrative also forms the background to decisions about capacity by, for instance, creating the impression of incompetence.
