Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confined to his home for years, forbid newspapers to quote him on any subject. Backing up the laws is a tough, efficient police force, plus a military and paramilitary organization specifically trained to put down insurrection. Top cop is Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, a devout Nationalist whose background includes two years in a South African internment camp for pro-Nazi activities...
...dervish-like as the environment he has set out to control, ESSA's first administrator, Dr. Robert M. White, 43 (younger brother of Author Theodore), combines the talents of a no-nonsense executive with solid scientific vision. White comes to the job with a background in weather research, first with the Air Force, then as president of Travelers Research Center, Inc., and later as chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Most observers consider him superbly equipped to chart the new agency's $145 million budget, 14% of which is earmarked for both in-house and contracted research...
Zoom to the Crow's-Nest. High-flown romance was N. C. Wyeth's special domain, but he infused it with a meticulous realism all his own. The inn in the background of the scene of Blind Pew was modeled on Wyeth's boyhood home in Needham, Mass., where he himself first read Treasure Island. "He was also a man who felt deeply about the tragedy of life," says Son-in-Law Peter Hurd, pointing out that Blind Pew was modeled on a blind man Wyeth knew. Far from mere illustration, it is a profound study...
...Sumphony of Psalms is always a treacherous adventure. Since it so often concentrates on developing a brief melody by very slight changes in the background harmony or by interchanging the chords backing up the melody, any subtlety of phrasing that is missed when the melody first appears becomes painfully magnified. Conductor Schmidt was most successful in evading this trap, leaving only the "Alleluia" motifs in the last movement a bit raw. A very strange circumstance about the performance was that the tiredness of chorus and conductor after wading through all that went before resulted in exactly the right amount...
ARFEP will try to encourage more discussion of China in local groups in the future, Crampton said. It plans to offer information and background about China to political candidates in the November election, he said...