Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote five of the songs, sings Four Days Gone with down home grit. It is a story song about a boy on the run from "government madness" who can't tell his name because he's "got reason to live." A tinny piano tinkles in the background while a steel guitar twangs out his lament, "I can't even go home. . . and my baby is awaitin'." The graceful admixture of rural blues and country-western sounds makes an admirable final testament to the band's Last Time Around...
...most former priests tend to translate their spiritual concern into academic or community service. Many seek jobs as teachers-some have even been hired by Catholic schools and colleges-or as social workers. A large number of ex-priests have married former nuns-an understandable result of their common background...
After pages of superfluous background, oversimplified opinion and bloodshed (including murder by laser), the party in power reconvenes its convention and chooses a hard-liner as its presidential candidate. Drury concludes the book with a "dreadful thing" that occurs on the rostrum as the candidate receives the party's acclaim. Suddenly, everyone is slipping around in blood. What happened to whom, how and why are questions that the author undoubtedly plans to answer in his next book. But after Preserve and Protect, the really important question is: When will Drury cease and desist...
...Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. If his responses raise any doubts about him, the candidate must go before a board of three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test, a Rorschach inkblot test, a picture-memory test and the Thematic Apperception Test. At any time during his training or six-month probationary period, a recruit's superior may order...
...European town house than like the typical suburban American home. The exterior is handsomely faced with slabs of honey-colored Italian travertine. Sculpture by Maillol, Arp, Lipchitz, Moore and Noguchi is placed on a terrace at the back, overlooking the pool. Inside the house, Johnson created a neutral background for art by covering the walls with carpeting dyed to match the travertine...