Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro colleges, Monro said, are in the process of becoming centers of black power. He promised "redirection of the curriculum so that young people become aware of the background of institutional power in this country--and how black people can attack the problem...
...painting; so was the whole state of Iowa, although both Dr. McKeeby and Iowa eventually got over that. Even so, in the early 1940s, a good deal of persuasion was required to get Nan Wood Graham and Dr. McKeeby to pose for a photograph with American Gothic in the background, the occasion being the first hanging of the painting at the Cedar Rapids Art Association (Grant had done virtually all of his good early work in or near Cedar Rapids). The persuasion of Dr. McKeeby, who died some years ago, entailed the efforts of a Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter named...
Posturing Polemics. If the first week of the talks is any indication, it will be quite some time before that point is reached. Ten hours of formal negotiations plus countless hours of press briefings and background sessions produced little more than posturing and polemics, a kind of ritual, throat-clearing preamble of insults and accusations. "We are now involved in a major propaganda campaign," said Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman. "But one day they will get tired and get down to constructive discussions...
Charging into New York, he thrust aside resident Democratic aspirants to take on Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture...
...hits-as well as more recent successes such as Paper Cup and Wichita Lineman-reveal Webb's gift for strong, varied rhythms, inventive structures, and rich, sometimes surprising harmonies. Threaded through them all are simple melodies that occasionally evoke country music or other sounds of his Southwest background (Wichita Lineman features the wow-wow-wow sound of the prairie wind whipping through electrical wires). "A pop song should have a lyric that's basically a poem," Webb says. "If people get the feeling, then the lyric is successful-whether they know what I'm talking about...