Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truax had the background and personality-not to mention the foursquare name-to succeed in government. Son of a U.S. Commerce Department official and son-in-law of a California municipal judge, the husky, crew-cut six-footer was graduated with honors from San Jose State College as a political-science major. Three and a half years ago, he landed an executive job with the newly formed Association of Bay Area Governments, a government-funded organization that was pioneering a regional approach to Northern California's problems. As it turned out, ABAC might have been designed to finance...
...eighth" member of the cast, Jeremy Levin, hovers in the background. He is credited with writing, directing, producing, and co-composing (with Forster) the show. If he is the source of most of The Proposition's original concepts, he should be congratulated. He should also take Miss Heine man's tests...
PERSONAL relationships among group members, apparently aided by the leader's staying in the background, developed differently in the various groups...
...Background: In accordance with the section 4-G of the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, the National Security Council has for some time been considering the advice it should render to the director of the Selective Service System with respect to occupational and graduate student deferments, after giving specific consideration to the needs of both the armed forces and the civilian segments of the population...
...toys with depth by distorting perspective. The two largest Braques in the collection are masterworks. The first, a "Still Life with Fruit and Mandolin," overlays lavendar and greys; its design breaks down objects into pattern and builds up pattern just enough to suggest objects. The distinctions between foreground and background are distorted, objects merge with and emerge from their surroundings, while color and pattern interact in such a way that the idea of color as attached to form breaks down...