Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents had warned Harvard to be careful in dealings with Richards, according to Steiner. Both Steiner and the Boston office of the FBI declined to indicate whether the warning included information about Richards's criminal background...
...action in The Devil's Disciple revolves around the discovery of true identity by Dudgeon and his counterpart, Reverend Anthony Anderson, a discovery which takes place against the background of colonial rebellion against the British. Notorious for his blasphemous gusto for life, Dudgeon in the course of the play proves willing to follow his own peculiar religion to the death--even when that death is theoretically another man's. When the British mistake him for the minister, whom they plan to hang as an example to town rebels, Dudgeon declines to correct their mistake. Meanwhile, Anderson, realizing his own ministerial...
...issue of TIME is confined entirely to one week's news. Background and trends leading up to the present must be included, and so it is in this case. But we are not attempting to deal with the whole Revolution. The Battle of Bunker hill is old news by now, and Valley Forge is yet to come. Here are the other main ground rules we established...
...Declaration thus states a people's right to dissolve any government that has become tyrannical. In great measure, this idea draws upon the examples of Great Britain's own revolutions of 1642 and 1688 ?winch included the execution and exiling of kings?and beyond that, upon a vast background of sometimes bloody tradition in winch Englishmen asserted their rights against the authority of their rulers...
...insisting that he would paint the death of General Wolfe at Quebec in the costumes and landscape in which it actually occurred, thus overturning the tradition that no hero could ever die except in the robes of ancient Greece, preferably with a temple or two in the background. West was a co-founder with Sir Joshua Reynolds of the Royal Academy of the Arts, and in 1772 King George appointed him historical painter to the court (his most recent commission: a Death of Stephen, for which the King proposes...