Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conant's successor, Nathan Pusey, Harvard acquired a president who by background was concerned more with undergraduate education than with speaking tours. The appointment of McGeorge Bundy as dean--a candidate apparently urged upon Pusey by the outgoing Buck--made it difficult for the new president to influence College matters. Fund drives and other external enterprises, suited primarily to presidential attention, also kept Pusey form taking a close hand in the College...
Careful scrutiny of these recommendations is an important way in which the Dean directly affects the calibre of the Faculty. Ford generally remains in the background at the ad hoc committee meetings, but he appoints the committee in the first place and therefore wields considerable influence. He must assure that there is an independent judgment not colored by departmental politics, professional jealously, or ideological differences...
...chronologically or by school. For instance, all portraits are combined in one small galery and geometric and cubist styles of all kinds are grouped in another. Dissimilarities are exploited as well. For example in the juxtaposition of Nicholaes de Stael's violent, angular Reclining Blue Nude on a Red Background and Jean Fautrier's The Gentle Woman, which is cool, liquid, and soft as an oyster...
With such a background, Fortas has inevitably become a member of the court's so-called activist majority. He has already staked out juvenile law as an area of special expertise and authored the court's important Gault decision, which extended constitutional rights to young offenders. His compelling advocacy seems certain to increase his judicial reputation. Indeed, it would seem that his move to the court has only one serious drawback. The workload is even heavier than it was in private practice. As a result, though he is an avid and expert amateur violinist, he has reluctantly...
...Berrigans are beyond doubt the most revolutionary priests that the Cathollic Church in the U.S. has yet produced. And there is nothing very radical about their background. They grew up in Syracuse, the sons of a tough Irish railroad worker; their mother a gentle devout Catholic, was known as a soft touch for every passing hobo. Daniel, who entered the Jesuit order straight out of high school, is a poet and chaplain at Cornell University he favors turtleneck sweaters and admits to being a "hippie priest." Philip, an infantryman during World War II, was ordained in 1955 in the Josephite...