Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political terms, the most significant fact about Wisconsin is its ethnic structure and background. Unlike most other Western states, Wisconsin was settled by immigrants who came directly from continental Europe. Despite some emigration from New England in the Jacksonian era, most of the first settlers were refugees of the political upheavals of Europe in 1948 and thereafter. Wisconsin's population grew from...
Last year, the post-doctoral studies included such topics as the background of the 1964 civil rights act, post-Civil War Indian policy, a demographic study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Andover, early development in the modernist impulse in American Protestantism, the career of Charles Merriam, and Anglo-American politics in colonial New York...
...Acid Commercial" mocks the use of drugs. With background accompaniment of an acosutic guitar and a kazoo--certainly not psychedelic--David sings...
...call McCarthy "a groovy guy. He's like a genius." There is no doubt, however, that Joe and the Fish are sincerely against President Johnson and the War. In their "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag," the Fish decry the War with an alternating background of "sock it to me" and "do wacka do" by singing...
Small and intriguing tales like these surround the geneses of most of America's great films: think of all those people who told Selznick that Gone With The Wind would never sell. Unfortunately, The African Queen falls far short of greatness, selling short its colorful background, despite the efforts of its talented creators (add to the list a fine short story writer, John Collier, whose contribution to the script equalled that of Huston and Agee, and photographer Jack Cardiff, then Carol Reed's right-hand man and cameraman on Hitchcock's magnificent Under Capricorn...