Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he was elected class president and outstanding student, he discovered the works of Hegel and Kant. Here also he was exposed to the writings of Mohandas Gandhi, whose mystic faith in nonviolent protest became King's lodestar. "From my background," he said, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique." Indeed, Gandhi's word for his doctrine, satyagraha, becomes in translation King's slogan, "soul force...
Studying Bell statistics for the reasons behind the difference, Hinkle and his research team found a link with education and, more important, family background. The figures showed that Bell's college-educated employees had a disabling-coronary-disease rate 30% lower than the company's noncollege workers. Behind the statistic there ap peared to be a significant difference in family health and diet patterns that persisted throughout the employees' adult hood. Most of the college men came from smaller, healthier families. They were slimmer, taller, smoked and ate less. Their fathers lived longer. The differences may have...
Musical Democracy. The Beaux-Arts' finesse is achieved not by dissolving individuality into the unit, but by insisting on each member's rights in a musical democracy. First Violinist Charles Libove 38, a tiny (5-ft. 3-in.) dervish of energy and enthusiasm, has the widest background as a soloist, acts as spokesman and arbitrator of musical disagreements Violinist Bernard Eichen, 36, the newest member of the group with only one year's tenure, is a nonstop quipster who gave his first recital at age nine and joined Toscanini's NBC Symphony at 19. Violist John...
Coleman's most important, and most revolutionary conclusion was that educational inputs--books, class-rooms, facilities, teachers--have relatively little effect on minority group achievement compared to socio-economic factors--particularly, the social class of a student's peers, and his own social class background...
Looking through our files for background material to last week's news, we were pleased to confirm an impression that TIME has for years been telling what's going on in the money world, warning about impending dangers in the balance of payments deficit, discussing proposed solutions, pointing up the need for a new form of international monetary reserves. While such subjects are often considered too complicated to have wide reader appeal, we have felt that TIME'S readers want and need to know about them. So we have dealt with them in major stories through...