Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strikingly similar to the President in temperament and background, Burger agrees firmly with Nixon that the Supreme Court has gone too far in areas such as protecting the rights of criminal defendants. Above all, he is the kind of man that Nixon feels the court needs in the wake of the Fortas scandal. Generally centrist in politics and cautious in law, Burger, a Republican, is neither dogmatic on the bench nor strongly oriented ideologically. He is in every way a professional jurist and a man of unquestioned probity, with the Midwestern virtues that Nixon so much admires. If, as expected...
...after the appointment. Speaking from notes he had written on his celebrated yellow legal pad, the President told not only why he had chosen Burger but why he had not chosen several others who had been prominently mentioned for the job. Other Presidents, including L.B.J., have held background sessions dealing with personalities or events. But never before has a President admitted the public so far into his thinking about an appointment. To some, it appeared to be a typical example of Nixonian psychology, a somewhat compulsive need to justify and explain himself. But the President's motives seemed straightforward enough...
Twice Forced To Leave. Tony Shub's family background may have made the Soviets especially wary of him. His father, David Shub, 81, is a Russian-born Social Democrat who was expelled from Russia by Czarist officials during the liberal agitation before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Settling in the U.S., the elder Shub wrote Lenin, still one of the authoritative books on the revolutionary's life. When ordered out of Russia by a Foreign Ministry official last week, the younger Shub replied: "My father was also twice forced to leave the country by the Russian authorities...
...preference for girls in floppy trousers. Son of a Nebraska farmer, truck driver and "you name it," he studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute. He abandoned his geometric-strip canvases because they were "constricting." Now he lays his canvas on the floor and paints or sprays the background on. Next he sprays on the dancing dervish loops and lines that race across them with an industrial airbrush. Finally, he cuts out the picture he wants from the panorama that he has created. He considers titles irrelevant. Red/ Red was called that because he wanted to make a picture...
...guitar, there is Segovia; for the cello, Casals; and for the tenor saxophone, there was Coleman Hawkins. Before him, the instrument was a straw among the winds, used only for nasal accents in the background of jazz bands. "Bean," as Hawkins' friends called him, transformed it into an expressive solo voice that could breathe lyrical long tones on ballads or erupt into flights of dazzling arpeggios. In a sense, it could be said that he created the tenor sax, and players from Ben Webster to Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane have acknowledged their debt to his inspiration and style...