Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doering said that medical schools do not specify a full year of lab in organic chemistry courses. The Harvard Medical School admissions office, for example, asks only for "adequate time" in the laboratory. "One semester of lab taken with the intellectual background of the Fall semester can be made nearly equivalent to the present course," Doering said...
Their music was pure "bluegrass," with Lester Flatt fingerin' away on the guitar and Earl Scruggs handling the five-string banjo. For 21 years they toured the country-music circuit, had their own radio show, and were rediscovered by pop America for their background music that was very much in the foreground of Bonnie and Clyde. Now Flatt, 54, and Scruggs, 45, have announced they are breaking up the act. Just why, they would not say. Friends report that the two have never been close, and now that both are well off financially, they see no reason to stick...
...narrative structure for the book. A more predictable story might have emphasized the Nazis' victimization of the Jews. Instead, Wiseman focuses on Kazakh's metaphysical obsession with Wirthof, an SS officer with grand passions and grandiose ideas. Though the two are totally disparate in personality and background, Kazakh feels that his own identity has somehow been submerged in Wirthof s (to an extent reversing the situation in Remain Gary's 1968 comic novel, The Dance of Genghis Cohri). Says Kazakh: "Wirthof still glitters in me, on my energy, in my time: that mica glitter of his: that...
Reading Womack's account, I can't help believing that there were several crucial moments when, if Zapata himself could have transcended his background, he could have have explained the urgency of his followers' needs. But such an unraveling of the misunderstanding never took place because Zapata, the excellent guerrilla tactician, was unable to wheel and deal at conferences. He bucked himself up for his important meeting with Pancho Villa by masquerading as part charro, an elegant cowboy, and part gypsy, rings and scarves and a lavender shirt. All through the meeting, Zapata hardly spoke. Glowering and slumped...
...great fortune there is a crime." When Puzo gets around to updating Balzac's ever so slight overstatement, he has the youngest and smartest son of the oldest and smartest New York Mafia boss tell his lank Yankee bride: "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...