Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deficiencies in the present Gen Ed system. An undergraduate's General Education is now confined largley to his freshman and sophomore years. There is some value in this, but many students would prefer putting off the encounter with Gen Ed until time and departmental education give them a superior background for dealing with...
...reason, however, to force everyone to take lower-level courses, and it is here that we differ from a second group of opponents of the CEP program, including Master Finley. If a person has a strong background in an area and wishes to study it at a more advanced level, or if he wishes to postpone his General Education until he has become familiar with much of the work covered by lower-level courses, he should be permitted to work at the upper-level...
Another fault of the new plan is that the individual Houses will probably lose their images, one element of the House system worth preserving. Equal distribution according to Rank List, school background, and field of concentration, with no provision for Masters' and students' choices, may diminish the particular character of each unit...
Built around Thomas Wolfe's patriotic prose poem Burning in the Night, the Salute started with an overture by Ferde Grofé, 73, who composed it in seven days, along with background music for the whole show, despite a recent stroke that has paralyzed his right side (he had to write it with the left hand). Interspersed with Actor Hugh O'Brian's reading of the poem were songs by the Bitter End Singers, the Serendipity Singers, Anita Bryant, Mahalia Jackson and the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill, who dressed in buckskins and boots to belt...
...intelligence into the ear of a king. As expanded by the State Department, the job of reporting has thousands of bevested young officers obsessively sending millions of words to Washington. With his tongue only barely tucked in his cheek, Thomas A. Donovan, former U.S. consul in Iran, writes: "Background studies on such live topics as Recurrent Themes in the Bulgarian Press Treatment of the Black Sea as a Sea of Peace or Whither Thuringia: the Principality's Progress Under the New Course are considered useful for filling the files at home." In Paris, an embassy labor attache, leaving after...