Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOON PONY by Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by Loretta Trezzo (Young Scott Books; $3.95). One of the best of an increasing number of picture books that depart from the usual white, middle-class background. This one is about a Negro child's dream of a ride to the moon on a white pony. It preserves the delicate balance between the real world and the imaginary...
...hard and revealing eye of the camera eventually put an end to such performances, and the image of the TV reporter changed to that of a sober professional who, though his background in Asian affairs might have gone no further than a college survey course, was dedicated to telling the inside story. The tour of network staffers in Viet Nam, unfortunately, was usually limited to six months and consequently the coverage was often little more than each new man's personal impressions of how it is over there...
Against this background, nobody expected much unity to result from the Organization of African Unity, especially under the dubious leadership of General Mobutu, who had enough troubles of his own trying to persuade Algeria to release Moise Tshombe so he could execute the former President...
...most important factors are sociological--the social class of each student, and the social class of his fellow students. Crippled by low parent education and lack of stimulus, students of low socio-economic background must fight extra hard to overcome home influences. But progress becomes almost impossible when fellow-students come from the same backgrounds, and suffer the same handicaps. Lacking examples of ambition or achievement, the class gels into a self-retarding mass...
...more plaintive and dramatic than the droning, hypnotic waves of sound poured out by other West Coast groups such as the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead. They startle and bemuse with a uniquely mournful and moody tone that shades Morrison's dusky voice seamlessly into a dark-textured background: the haunting organ, piano and bass of Ray Manzarek, 24; the sinuous guitar of Robby Krieger, 21; the nimble drums of John Densmore...