Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously written books." In an interview with TIME Cor respondent Jess Cook Jr., Rogers observed: "I haven't any emotional ties to the past. I'm not associated with any school of thought. Sure, there are some disadvantages in that I don't have the background of others. I'm going to do a lot of listening and reading in the next 30 or 40 days." High on his reading list were the works of Professor Henry Kissinger, who will be Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs...
Perhaps another reason for the Nixon-Rogers bond is the remarkable similarity of background and development. Both were born to families of modest means in small towns 55 years ago, Rogers in Norfolk, N.Y., where his father was a cashier in a paper mill. Both boys went to work early, Rogers at age 14 as a photographer's assistant. They had to scrape for their education: scholarships, some help from his family and income from an assortment of jobs (dishwasher, waiter, door-to-door salesman of brushes) got Rogers through college at Colgate and law school at Cornell. Both...
...energy of the poetry and the drawings is boredom, which drives the desire and lust of "the true voyager," one of "those who move simply to move -- like lost balloons!" Each illustration has a dark brushstroked background, as if it were an image cast upon a dark imagination -- "a mirage of agony...
...with startling images from this lurid and abortive voyage. His illustrations suggest monotypes -- brilliant rag strokes of detail. The reader -- hypocrite, mirror-image of the poet -- peers from another of Nolan's paintings. Only the essential features of the face are defined -- in heavy skeletal patterns. The obscure background overcomes the face's body. We are forced to recognize the identity of the face, the soul. "Its BOREDOM.... This obscene beast chain-smokes yawning for the guillotine--you--hypocrite Reader--my double--my brother...
...predominantly white institution. They anticipated no problems in making the adjustment to life at Wellesley. They were somewhat surprised, then, to find that the college's black freshmen were not roomed with white students because black students, the administration assumed, would be happier with girls from a "similar background...