Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing? It would seem not. In The Godfather, the Dartmouth-educated son of a New York boss gives his bride what is probably the typical rationale. Members of Cosa Nostra, he reasons, are no worse than any other Americans. "In my history course at Dartmouth, we did some background on all the Presidents, and they had fathers and grandfathers who were lucky they didn't get hanged...
...close to Tucson-the fact that a grand jury in New York wants him for questioning may also be persuasive-but he is not really at home. Newspapers ride him. Substantial gifts to the Roman Catholic Church and philanthropies have somehow failed to make people forget about his background...
...involved when a doctor picks his own doctor is his inability to give up his superior role. "Doctors don't want to be dependent," he says. "They can't stand the thought of losing rank and of being subordinate, even to another physician. All their training and background in medicine are against it. Their role in practicing medicine is always that of a superior, an authoritarian who gives the orders...
...Charles, Patrick Garvey, remembered today as a "stern, quarrelsome but good-looking man," concealed his picture under the bed. The most elaborately composed portrait, that of Monsignor Hugh Henry, shows a genuine figure of strength and integrity, yet strangely mocked by a grinning image of Leo XIII in the background. Conversely, an expression of utmost anguish mitigates the authority suggested by the splendrous vestments of Monsignor James Loughlin...
...teacher updated his will before leaving home in Tennessee and took out a $37,000 life-insurance policy. Towbis, who is working for a doctorate in education at Berkeley, brushed aside their fears. He insisted on the need for daily immersion in slum areas to "understand the kids' background from working in the ghetto instead of out of sociology books...