Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against that background, new perspective is given to the acrimonious stalemate between the Administration and Congress over President Johnson's midyear decision to raise his unfulfilled demand for a 6% surcharge to a demand for 10%. The President and his aides, basing their case on a debatable vision of future trouble, argued that only by raising taxes could the soaring federal deficit be shaved enough to avoid inflation. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted that the kind of trouble he saw-cost-push inflation from rising wages and prices-might only...
Since he became a professor in 1942, Brinton's courses have been known for their informality. His scholarly background and anecdotal style of lecturing have won him the respect and affection of all his students...
There are 66 of the miniatures, dating from the 16th through the 19th centuries. They belong to the genre of Ragamala paintings, each delicately drawn and daringly colored to illustrate the moods and scenes of classical Indian music, the Raga. Ravi Shankar and the Beatles provide an appropriately vivid background...
...black in a racist society," and to preserve "a picture of our struggle for freedom." Much of his work portrays aspects of violence, including riots at home and the Vietnam war abroad. One enormous diptych called "Vietnam/Genocide/America" points up the Negro's ironically similar position in both. In the background of "The Manipulators" (placed in the window facing the street) we see President Johnson and Premier Ky with their arms around each other; and Johnson has to himself one painting titled simply "Killer." Among other paintings of protest are "Grove Hall Nightmare," "Roxbury Rebellion," and "Riot Victim...
...people are dancing anymore... Oh yes, you'll say that people are: 'Look at this place, look at that place, look at all the people who are dancing.' But in comparison to the amount of people there are, forget it (reverb), not many people are dancing (electronic noises in background) and people are dancing a prescribed way. You know that kind of thing: you have to do it right or else you don't and you know you don't, it's like you're embarrassed when you get up on the bandstand to dance and someone will laugh...