Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this barbaric intransigence--four thousand years of patriarchal domination, constant war, social oppression, genocidal atrocities too numerous to mention. Therefore it is the height of masculine imbecility, if not worse, to even compare the exclusively feminine 'Vestal' with the barbaric regression of male-only chauvinism. Anyone with the slightest background in anthropology knows that if not for the civilizing influence of the prehistoric agrarian matriarchies, men would still be a race of rock-eating troglodytes. Women did not have to take men along with them on their evolutionary journey--they just as easily could have left them behind in their...
Bruce Taylor Odell is an enigma. He calls himself a "quiet man," but he is eager to tell stories. He will preface a story with the admonition "this is off the record, deep background," and then spell out all the names in the forbidden episode. He denies any egocentricity, yet, like most people, he seems to like the sound of his own name. After serving as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative for 17 of the last 25 years, he claims to have "come out" in order to "turn the agency around," but he is reluctant to publicly reveal...
...Littauer School of Public Administration, tells his tales with conviction and sincerity despite their incredible content. He first began to reveal some of his history in late October to William Beecher, diplomatic correspondent for the Boston Globe. At that time, Odell decided to "go public" about his background and disclose some of the things he knows. ("I'm wired," he says. "I know more than you'll ever dream.") With passionate intensity he states his motivation in coming out: "I finally got tired of Americans being lied to by elected and appointed officials. Who needs a charismatic emperor in this...
...Chandly, a deputy assistant CIA director, said yesterday that Odell's allegations concerning the falsified documents submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee are untrue. Chandley said the documents were "definitely not falsified" and that the agency had cooperated completely with the committee. Chandley declined further comment on Odell's background, his reliability as a source, or the extent of his knowledge of the CIA. However, Odell says that his knowledge of these types of operations and their "cover-ups" impelled him to quit the agency...
...school desegregation, which have stirred anti-black sentiment in many Catholic urban neighborhoods, may be the biggest factor in the continuing drift toward the G.O.P. For example, despite Carter's determined efforts to woo Italian votes ("I think it's a shame that someone of Italian background has never been appointed to the Supreme Court"), more than 55% of the Italian vote went to Ford. In the 24th Ward of St. Louis, a predominantly Italian, blue-collar area where 7,000 of the 9,000 voters are Catholic, Carter won by a less than 2-to-l ratio...