Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highest paid and most dangerous position available is Provincial Operations Officer. These men, who preferably have some background in government affairs, live in the villages and directly administrate AID's program's. They receive about $20,000 a year...
...through much of the eighteenth century many artists possessed handbooks, like Alciati's Ripe (1635), which encyclopedically portrayed all the traditional symbols and gestures in art associated with important didactic themes like virtue or temperance. In most of Copley's work the symbolic paraphernalia, like the background materials, is executed in a style that strongly contrasts it with the foreground subjects. In the portraits, the sitter is usually set off against a hazy stage-prop background that contradicts, in its two-dimensionality, the fullness and solidity of the foreground forms. Generally speaking, the quality of Copley's portraits varies inversely...
...free men of any generation your cover story on Spain [Jan. 21], was an affront not worthy of TIME'S reasonably impartial standards. The tortured many who fought fascism in 1937 would turn in their unmarked graves to see Franco against a background of a green tree...
...most violent, least muted colors you're apt to see in a movie of the 60's. One aria scene between young lovers Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo takes place in an alley walled in pink, chartreuse, and flaming orange. By cutting various camera angles, Demy gets background colors to underscore whatever mood happens to be flooding the sound-track in song...
Here the argument ends, for united or not, religious activities still hold little interest for Harvard students. The general formula for religious participation at Harvard is 15 or 20 interested students for every 100 with a definite religious background. Explanations of the lack of interest seem to vary with the denomination but have little to do with the state of the United Ministry. "I think the religious doubts start in high school, long before students get here," speculates the Rev. Rene O. Bideaux of the Methodist Church, "They have them when they get off the bus." The Rev. Ernst...