Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rome Correspondent John Shaw, who has been covering Italian politics and social developments for the past year, brought to his files a background based on hundreds of interviews - with academicians, journalists, sociologists, politicians. Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who has been specializing in Italian business stories for the past six years, was well prepared to document the development of the economy and the emergence of a particularly gifted generation of government economists and businessmen...
Artist Glanzman, who has done a variety of TIME covers in a variety of styles and media, used raw textured silk and leather as a background for his unusual composition. "I painted the head on steel," he says, "to represent Fiat. The silk and leather represent Italian industries...
Many of the other keen, questing intellects also left. Johnson was always a man who took public issues personally; dissent of any kind became increasingly intolerable to him. With many intellectuals in loud and often unreasonable opposition, his old feelings of insecurity and inferiority about his rural background and mediocre education became more pronounced...
...Wasp's moral authority, it is clearly waning, but he still has an inimitable asset: the inner security inherited from his Protestant background and his expansive American experience. "If you are a Wasp, you have the confidence that the Establishment is yours and that you are on the top," says Novelist Herbert Gold. "There is the feeling that the love of a horsy woman comes to you as a birthright," Hollywood may be filled mainly with non-Wasps, but they still usually take Wasp names and act out Wasp fantasies in films. In Jewish novels, the central character...
...well-bred Wasp who rebels against the snobbishness and starchiness of his background is an almost classic figure in American life. Prominent Wasp families have contributed to the ranks of the current youthful revolutionaries...