Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most exciting effects of the evening are produced by that mixture of set designers, lighting men and hangers-on billed as the "Brattle Street Trust." The scenery, which is a blend of lighting and well-chosen props, makes a fascinating, fluid background to the strange play that jerks enigimatically along in the foreground...
Burrowing through masses of data, he isolated one factor-family background-linking poverty and poor performance on the induction tests. Cen tral to both was the Negro. Fewer than half of all Negroes reached the age of 18 having lived all of their lives with both parents; 21% of Negro families were fatherless; at least 25%, and maybe as many as 40%, of Negro children were illegitimate...
Against this background, violence on the American scene today is still alarming, but it scarcely suggests a disastrous deterioration. Public tolerance of violence seems lower than ever before in U.S. life, and public respect for law far higher. Above all, there is evidence to show that-some statistics to the contrary-violent crime in the U.S. is not really growing relative to the population. After massive researches, the President's Crime Commission admits that crime trends cannot be conclusively proven out by available figures. According to FBI reckoning, crimes of violence have risen about...
...cast, which included Stripteaser Rita Renoir as "Tart," entered against a background of a pile-driving rock-'n'-roll band, go-go girls, and slides of Picasso paintings projected on the backdrop. Tart got right down to business, stripped to the waist and shimmied around wildly, while the rest of the ensemble cavorted about in a grotesque little dance...
...Institutional policy should pay proper respect to the intersets of research and scholarship to insure that the freedom of inquiry is not abridged. Neither investigators seeking generalizable knowledge about the educational enterprise, historians examining the background of a deceased alumnus who became a publicly significant figure, nor other legitimate scholars should be unduly restricted in their pursuits. When there is any doubt about its being safe-guarded, the person's consent to its use should be formally obtained, and the same general principles should be applied to the preservation of records as are recommended here with respect to the maintenance...