Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depicts the devil, disguised as a monk but revealed for what he is by his horns and cloven foot, tempting Christ three times (the second two temptations are shown in mini-miniature in the background). The principal scene shows the devil in the wilderness offering Christ a rock and boldly challenging him to turn the stone into bread. Christ resists the temptation, and one can almost hear the famous words "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." For a Queen, it was doubtless meant as a gentle reminder that...
...conductors bred in the old gradual apprenticeship, commented on the new conductors to a friend recently: "I'm afraid they jumped from elementary school to the university without going through the intervening stage of high school"-implying that at some point in the future the gap in their background will show through...
Something New. Successor Spater springs from a completely different background. Born in Detroit, he studied law at the University of Michigan ('33), spent his time in corporate practice until he joined American in 1959 as general counsel. During the feud between Sadler and Hogan, Spater was given more and more responsibility, ended up as a natural successor to both. Ironically, in his new position Spater will gain something that Sadler has always wanted but never got. Naming him president this week, American's board of directors is also expected to name him chief executive, succeeding C. R. Smith...
...second major criticism, heard less around colleges, is directed at the system of student deferments. The inequity of deferring those whose family background and financial status have led to their college attendance has been pointed out by groups as disparate as U.S. Senators and black militants. The result of these deferments is historically interesting: upper and middle-class males have managed to avoid military service altogether (until recently), while the lower classes provided almost all the regular soldiers. By-passing students is, of course, said to be in the national interest, but many contemporary critics have viewed the procedure primarily...
...irresistible force was at least slowed down. The project was an NBC documentary advertised as "Dr. Barnard's Heart Transplant Operations." Immediately after the Washkansky operation last month, Mrs. Jarvis set about gathering material for a program to be pegged to the next such event. She shot biographical background footage on Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, interviewed his friends and medical colleagues, and filmed Barnard and his team as they performed open-heart surgery. She also discussed with Barnard the technical problems of covering the next heart-transplant operation, and came away with the impression that he would permit filming from...