I think I finally came up with a solution I like. The user's private resource file ~/.Xresources can include these lines:
*Background: LightGrey XTerm*background: white 'xterm' needs a separate resource, unless one likes its background to be grey. But Tcl/Tk applications and Xemacs seem to be OK with light grey as a background, so I think I'm done for a bit.
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