Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silva lost no time in applying them after he took office in the still unfinished and boldly modern capital of Brasilia last month. A lifetime professional soldier who headed Brazil's armed forces until he resigned to run for President, Costa is a pragmatic man whose army background has stiffened his spine and his resolve-and made him less dreamy than some of his predecessors. In a meeting with his Cabinet the day after his inauguration, he said: "Brazilian society is profoundly split. This cleavage is growing and deepening so much that all of us must work urgently...
...Alabama desegregate all its public schools. But what really fired up the legislators was a student publication called Emphasis '67-Revolutions that included articles by Negro Militant Stokely Carmichael on 'Power and Racism," and by Communist Bettina Aptheker on the U.S. in Viet Nam. The pamphlet provided background for a student-sponsored symposium last month on world problems at which Dean Rusk was a main speaker...
Accident's glacial dissection of human passion takes place against the brilliant background of a green Oxonian summer, accenting the mood of haunting irony that Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) strove for. But despite the excellence of his camera work, and of Bogarde in the central role, Accident is a flawed work. The fault is largely that of Scriptwriter Harold Pinter (The Homecoming). His customarily cryptic dialogue probes too deeply, revealing all of the characters' inner anxiety and guilt, almost none of their outward life and feeling. Although they suffer from pangs of the flesh, they seem...
...publishing goes, readers must be grateful for small favors. This novel is a medium-sized favor. It is a literate adventure story with a historical background-the Russian Revolution...
...imply that anti-war demonstrations are in part the result of domestic Red subversion is fearfully reminiscent of the tactics Sen. McCarthy used in the 1950s. In addition, it demonstrates the President's reluctance to face up to what last weekend showed: many citizens of diverse views and background have become repelled enough by the United States' openended policy to take to the streets for as long as eight hours--a highly unusual political...