Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rica correspondent, Ungeheuer was fortunate to find some old beerdrinking buddies among customs officials at Lagos airport to help him past the red tape and get him on a flight to Enugu, former capital of the Eastern Region, for an eyewitness report of relief operations. also had valuable background files from TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold and Ottawa Bureau Chief Alan Grossman. During two years in West Africa, Grossman covered the Ibo massacres that led to the present civil war. Among his more vivid memories, Grossman recalled walking along the platform at the Kano railroad station...
...added up to just over four years in the majors, and the pension rules set a five-year minimum. Bartholomay makes it clear that charity has nothing to do with signing Satch. "With his tremendous background," said Bartholomay, "Paige is expected to be a great help in working with young players." He may even get into a game or two. After all, in his final appearance with the A's, at the age of 60 or thereabouts, he held the Boston Red Sox scoreless for three innings...
...Falls might have added the cultural factor. He had the advantage of sound family background and a college-graduate mother. Admission tests are written with a white, middle-class bias, complains Dr. Hiawatha Harris, a black Los Angeles psychiatrist. He cites a young Negro candidate who went through two-thirds of the questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort...
...libretto by Playwright-Film Maker Richard Foreman bristled with the same anarchic spirit. Against a background of film strips and flashing lights, it unfolded a plotless jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character in a typically enigmatic line, "therefore I retrace my steps." In another episode, a scruffy charwoman incongruously trilled out an aria while brandishing a three-foot wooden spoon at the other characters...
...gripping the attention of the Tanglewood audience through its sheer theatrical flair. Silverman, 30, is music director of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and an evangelist for a new form of music-theater. As a former student of Leon Kirchner and Darius Milhaud, he has a solid background in "pure" classical composition. But, he says, "I wanted to get into pop music and rock. I can do this much better than the other stuff. Musical comedy is the great American sound, but most of its composers haven't had the technique to carry it further. They write...