Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerned with the snide way Mr. Glassman goes on to report the confession of college offenses which "Tom Galleway" made to a group of Harvard freshmen. But who exactly is this "Tom Galleway" who, we are made to feel, has fabricated a Harvard background? The answer lay easily at hand for Mr. Glassman...
...dependent variables have been organized for presentation here into three major groups: background characteristics, present behavior, and scores on personality tests...
Slide 3 lists a number of background characteristics, the majority of which did not differentiate between the group receiving psychiatric help and the controls. Among the variables that did discriminate between the groups, only three could be confirmed by testing on the Class of 1965. These were religious preference of the student, the number of close friends, and the student's evaluation of his past health...
...summary, the majority of background factors showed no significant relationship with seeking psychiatric help, whether these factors were education, ethnic membership, region of the country, or intelligence and previous academic performance of the student...
...Congress consists of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives from every state and every social background, ranging from millionaire to former coal miner. There is no reason to assume that this body includes a greater number of crooks than any other comparable sample of 535 Americans. But is that good enough? The U.S. voter takes a fairly cynical view of politicians, more or less expecting them to be up to their campaign buttons in patronage and various forms of skulduggery. But at the same time, he also expects (or wants) them to be above the more blatant forms of corruption. That...