Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allow more flexibility to meet the various needs of individual students that arise from differences in background, interests and choice of future careers in medicine...
...Capitol) is a documentary of degeneration, with historical data, current statistics, comments from "acidheads" on why they dig the drug, from "travel agents" on why they sell it, and from medical experts on its appalling effects. Against a background of psychedelic music and the hallucinatory laughter of "stoned" kids, the shattering screams of a young man on his 34th trip put into frightening perspective the never-never world of society's dropouts...
IRWIN BAZELON New York City Sir: A delightful story about an amazing man. But in an apparent burst of Gesamtkunstwerk the cover artist not only turned Mr. Sing's parchment-over-steel face into pastry lumped over oboe; he brocaded him into the background. Holy Schlock...
Although the artistic traditions of this country are scattered and few, the Met has a solid and colorful background. There are convincing signs, from the exorbitant price of boxes in the new house to the art gallery of Met immortals downstairs, that the Met will forsake very little of its great tradition...
...into reevaluating the present policy over the summer. During his recent trip to Taiwan Secretary of State Rusk warned the Nationalists that a change in policy might be necessary in the next session. Ambassador Goldberg said late in August that the government was actively reexamining its admission policy. In background briefings to major newspapers, top-level officials indicated that the policy would be altered this session...