Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audited courses in development theory at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and courses in practical international involvement by free enterprise at the Business School. With this preparation, my idea was to find a job with a private firm engaged in development operations abroad in which my overall background in political dynamics would be valuable...
Suddenly, the din of rock 'n' roll is in terrupted. From the loudspeaker come a furious flapping of wings and a fero cious cackle: "Bawk, bawk, bawk, baaawk-CHICKENMAN!" A background chorus proclaims: "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!" Well, not quite every where, but almost. In the past year, 149 U.S. radio stations have programmed Chickenman, a 2½-minute spoof of the Superman-Batman genre. Some cities have even played him nine times a day, seven days a week...
...until recently California Republican chairman, the Nixon staff moved into a freshly whitewashed four-story building decked out with plush royal blue carpeting, flattering photographs of Nixon smiling with assorted statesmen, and Dick's new insignia, a white N-shaped bolt of lightning on a blue and red background. For his working staff, Parky, 48, has assembled a bright-looking thirtyish headquarters crew that seems to make up in zeal what it lacks so far in experience...
Against this background stands Robert Traill Spence Lowell. Echoes of many of his predecessors and colleagues can be found here and there in his work, although he lacks the resigned elegance and orthodox Christianity of Eliot, the homespun philosophy of Frost, the intellectual subtlety of Stevens, the wit of Auden, the wild...
...picture of the legendary grassy knoll. A Dallas woman who no longer lists her telephone number -- Mary Anne Moorman -- took the photograph moments after the fatal bullet struck President Kennedy. Lifton and Marcus observed a total of five possible human images behind the wall in the background, including two (designated nos. 2 and 5) in which one can see a suggestion of a gun. Although the other three images are more questionable, Marcus is certain both 2 and 5 are valid. For each he has what he considers independent corroboration--a faint suggestion of a figure in the ITEK photo...