Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Music on the Wall. What works well for the buildings works even better in Expo's experimental films. In the best of them, composer and film maker have worked out a new approach in which the musical scheme is elevated beyond its usual background function...
...remember what Jesus said to his disciples, 'Take and eat, for this is my body.' " The consecration completed, the 24 men and women in the room kissed each other on the cheek or shook hands, as a sign of peace. While a guitar plunked softly in the background, the worshipers shared the bread and wine and sang a hymn from the Mass for Young Americans by Folk Composer Ray Repp...
...unit is a professor of Military Science; he is a voting member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for as long as his appointment lasts--normally three years. The selection of the commanding officer is short and simple: the Army recommends a colonel and forwards biographical background on him to the Dean of the College. Upon the Dean's approval, Franklin Ford. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, recommends the colonel's appointment to the Corporation. In short, there is little real screening of the proposed officer...
Students for a Democratic Society--SDS has an interesting background at Harvard. Its predecessor, TOCSIN, was vital in the early 1960's at Harvard; it was intellectually oriented and lasted as long as ban-the-bomb was an issue, but the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty wiped out TOCSIN's importance. In 1964, the old TOCSIN remnants and several new groups combined to fill the vacuum for civil rights and peace activities. The TOCSIN tradition was one of sophisticated analysis and objectivity, but in the past year there have been trends both towards more emotionally satisfying tactics of confrontation and towards...
With good reason. Not only are they welded together by the sheer fact of being the Beatles, but they also share a common lower-middle-class background in the sooty, Victorian shadows of Liverpool. Paul, the son of a cotton salesman, and John, who was raised by an aunt after his father deserted the family, were playing together as early as 1955. George, whose father was a bus driver, joined them in 1958. Two years later they met Ringo (born Richard Starkey), a docker's son. Their families were dubious about musical careers...