Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoi's misreading of American student protest demonstrations is not a sufficient reason for smothering debate in this country over the war in general," he declared. He spoke to some 650 editors and broadcasters at the State Department's bi-annual "background conference," which prohibits attribution of any statements...
...CHIVALRY, by Tom Cole. This initial book of stories by a lecturer at M.I.T. is witty, charming, and dominated by a superb novella that casts a young American couple against the primordial background of Sicily, hurls them into the frenzy of a carnival, and delicately records their individual reactions...
...known in the West as a supporter of the late Boris Pasternak and has penned essays on Picasso and Robert Frost, his delicate style just did not seem to fit. Tertz writes with a heavy undercurrent of Jewish Weltschmerz, Sinyavsky with a gentle wit reflecting his Russian Orthodox background...
...unity. Each independent's quest for votes is an individual matter; he is competing against other independents more than he is working with them. PR, favoring minority votes as it does, encourages this division. But the independents are not only split by the system, but also by temperament, background, and political philosophy...
...independent, Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, has the potential power to create some semblance of order out of the disorganized ranks of the independents. Sullivan is from an old political family, has good political instincts, and inherits a hard core of workers loyal to his cause. His background is Irish Catholic, and he eats, sleeps, drinks, and prays politics. He avoids antagonizing anyone and gets along even with his political enemies. Walk out in the street someday with Sullivan; he knows everyone by his first name...