Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece; the lovers on a tiny piece of grimy beach are flanked by stagehands running around with large strips of colored paper; the bossa nova singing exhusband becomes a pudgy Hawaiian who falls down a flight of stairs to his death. All this is fine but somewhere from the background comes a gnawing feeling that the conception owes too much to Lelouch--that Bartlett didn't really have much...
...Fellow, R. Keith Kane '22, said in an interview last week, that he would like to see the Corporation choose a medical doctor as the fifth Fellow. Pusey said, "Ideally it would be nice to have a scientist but we do not consider background in making the choice." The last M.D. on the Corporation was Roger I. Lee '02, who served from...
...occurrence at the ICA for some time. Its first manifesto laid claim to everything contemporary from sculpture and painting to music, theater, poetry and films. To further the love-in between the arts, the ICA picked as its new director Michael Kustow, 28, a bearded, bumptious young iconoclast whose background has been not in art but as a jack of all trades for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His aim, says Kustow, will be to put on not only exhibitions "but a new kind of show." Actually, he adds, "I think of this place as much more a television studio than...
...reliance on manipulating her more than it demonstrates any love for her. These men, all professional, are no longer excited by space travel: they sleep during flights and pay no attention to what-we-consider extraordinary phenomenon occurring before their eyes (the rapid rotation of the earth in the background during the telephone scene...
...four proposals for Harvard criticize real faults here. An endowed chair for a black professor is not the only mechanism for getting more Negroes on the Faculty, but the University must hire a qualified black social scientist to fill a tenured position. A black man could have the background and experience to teach blacks (and whites) here what no presently tenured Faculty member can. And the University should recruit and train black graduate students, thereby increasing the number of young black Faculty members. Expressions of eager intent are no longer sufficient...