Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their knowledge of current events by this test. Other aids include: TIME CAPSULE/1941, a condensation of that historic year as reported in the pages of TIME, and Great Decisions-1968, produced by the Foreign Policy Association. An annual nonpartisan study program of eight foreign-policy problems, Great Decisions presents background material and an impartial analysis of policy alternatives, complete with a teachers' guide...
...some British musicians, says Malcolm Williamson, an Australian composer is like a kangaroo at Court - a complete contradiction in terms. But to Williamson, a much admired Australian composer living in Britain, his Down Under background is an up-over musical advantage. "It's wonderful," he says, "not being bothered by tradition...
...unemployment rate of the city's 36,000 Negroes and Puerto Ricans is still nearly three times (8%) that of whites. The schools are still heavily segregated, and the white majority, largely of Irish and Italian background, is reluctant to integrate them. The Irish-dominated police department still shows hostility toward the newer migrants, and badly needs reorganization-as urged in a recent report to the mayor...
...play, Daphne in Cottage D. "She drives the less imaginative directors up the walls." That she gets away with it doubtless reflects a growing U.S. hunger for actresses of talent rather than tinsel. But equally important is Sandy's own single-minded drive for theatrical achievement. Her background has a lot to do with it. She comes from Nebraska, and as a matter of odd fact, so do a remarkable number of other well-known names in show business-the Astaires, Marlon Brando, Johnny Carson, Montgomery Clift, James Coburn, Henry Fonda, Dorothy McGuire and Robert Taylor, to name...
...fuses sight and sound into a single artistic unity. His people speak in a curious linguistic melange, basically Bengali but liberally daubed with English stock phrases. His musical background, which he himself composed, is a similar fluid mixture in which a line of Oriental melody moves imperceptibly toward a Western cadence...