Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
...background of the situation has become unpleasantly familiar to New Yorkers. The city's board of education last year set up a pilot project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section to test school decentralization, which would allow "the community"-the parents themselves and the neighborhood leaders-to run the schools. Only that way, supporters of the scheme claim, will ghetto children get sympathetic teachers with a more flexible approach to their special needs. Most professional, unionized teachers deeply distrust the idea. And when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing committee asked for the transfer of 13 teachers that it considered...
...asks Eric why he wants to be like Howard Hawks. His answer: Hawks saw the world as increasingly dark and complicated and somehow emasculating, and considered self-respect the key to a life style we do not understand anymore. Also something about the way Hawks employs objects in the background...
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Watson said in the interview that he had no "real proof" that the students were the sons of communists. He did not mention their names. He said his conclusions on the background of student radicals were based mainly on conversations with administrators of other universities...