Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undoubtedly stems from a lack of familiarity. A listener can't really connect a modern piece with an idiom of style in the same way that even an unknown Romantic or Classical composition can be identified as Romantic or Classical. For one thing, most people don't have a background or vocabulary of contemporary music to relate to contemporary music that they are hearing for the first time. And there is no real contemporary style; trends in modern music are scdivergent that familiarity with one school may be of little help in evaluating the product of another...
...most students who arrive at Harvard have the capacity to recognize courses that will aid their intellectual growth. The College can advise all students that a strong Gen Ed background is valuable and important. Nothing more is necessary other than the implementation of a much stronger advisory system. If students are forced into taking these courses they will probably make little attempt to learn from the subject matter...
...Cyprus crisis forced Brigadier General Ioannides to transfer his power to civilian politicians, who in turn called on former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis to end his self-imposed exile in Paris and form a new government. This change occurred against a background of general dissolution to all resistance organizations following the Polytechnic revolt. The Karamanlis regime adopted some minimal positive measures, such as the release of all political prisoners, legalization of all political parties and free elections. It also withdrew from the military branch of NATO, though more in words than in fact...
What makes all this sexist nonsense just about bearable is the basic sweetness of the actresses who play the Angels. In background, they are not so different from the better-established stars with whom they compete. Though older than the Angels, Police Woman Angie Dickinson was just another beauty-contest winner who financed her acting lessons with a secretarial job until Director Howard Hawks cast her as Feathers, the dance-hall girl in his Rio Bravo. Like another Hawks discovery, Lauren Bacall, she was very feminine but very much a man's woman, easy to kid around with...
...Winthrop House roommate of former president John F. Kennedy '40 and, like Kennedy, was a World War'II Navy veteran. Markey, by contrast, is a milkman's son who went to Boston College and Boston College Law School, and wasn't the captain of anything. Describing his background in these terms, Markey seems almost apologetic...