Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of Lee's Oriental background and Milliken's medieval interests, the museum's strength lies largely in those two fields. But with the new acquisitions, Cleveland now has at least one object that is near the top in every department. They range from a 5th century B.C. Greek lekythos to a 1962 painting by Richard Lindner, an exquisite gilt bronze Standing Buddha to a Berlinghieri Madonna and Child. An extremely rare set of early Christian marbles portraying Jonah and the Good Shepherd makes an illuminating contrast with a hypnotic 15th century panel, St. John the Baptist...
...expedition into man's past. In that book, on evidence that would arch any cautious anthropologist's eyebrow, Ardrey proved to his own satisfaction that man is a born killer. He toyed with some other revolutionary evolutionary notions too, but he lacked either the time or the background to push them with suitable evangelical zeal. That required another book, and this...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite looks at "Nehru: Man of Two Worlds," his background, schooling, return to India and his efforts in the struggle for world peace. Repeat...
...Schenley Industries, Inc. named an able, amiable Canadian, John Mackie, 55, as president, succeeding Lewis S. Rosenstiel, 75, who retains his position as chairman and chief executive officer. Mackie moves to New York with professional background as an accountant who became chairman of Schenley's profitable British subsidiary, Seager-Evans. He considers his appointment as the non-American president of "an extremely American company" to be "amazing and wonderful. I can think of no precedent." But he has few illusions about the amount of control he will take over from Rosenstiel. Says he: "I have a tremendous amount...
...support the powers that be for the sake of peace and quiet. She joins the SS nursing corps, but discovers to her horror that SS nurses are better trained to kill than to cure. As her personal tragedy unfolds in the foreground, the national disaster is glimpsed in the background: bobbies accompanied by German tommy gunners, state offices staffed by arrogant blackshirts, press oppressed, radio reduced to martial music and rigged news, ghettos behind barbed wire, extermination depots scattered through England's green and pleasant land. In the end, the heroine connects with the resistance-and finds it just...