Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shows like "The Golden Door," which runs until Oct. 20 at Washington's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, are commonplace now in the better-financed institutes of art. The visitor enters to find not paintings but blowups of old newspaper articles, photos and paragraphs of background material. This well-intentioned but overproduced exhibition attempts to present the vision of men and women who came to the U.S. as immigrants in the past 100 years. There are over 200 works by 67 artists−no more than a handful by any one person−strung out between way stations...
Both his parents are now apologetic about depriving him of his Japanese cultural background, Asakawa said, and his father, a businessman, encouraged a group of his Japanese-American friends to support his son while he writes. "There's an active interest among Asian-Americans to see something written," Asakawa said. "Tradition keeps your identity in a lot of ways. And in recent years it has become popular to encourage separate communities of ethnics to develop." But, he added, "a novel doesn't work just because you are an ethnic, unfortunately...
...contrast, the thesis of Jose Barba-Martin, a second year graduate student of Spanish-American literature, is far more traditional and almost seems removed from life. But over the phone with the sound of a baby crying in the background, Barba-Martin said last month he has chosen to put his savings into "my time to get a Ph.D." For him, writing a thesis is "not only a matter of planning but also of other human needs. It's a matter of time and a matter of discipline and you have to plan for more time than you think...
...work." Sarmiento, a man who wrote so much that "he didn't have time to number the pages," published two different versions of his biography of his illegitimate son. The earlier edition, Barba-Martin said, deals mostly with the child's personality. The second edition, cast against a chaotic background of Sarmiento's own public life, serves as a vehicle for the statesman's ideas about education that were influenced by the American Horace Mann. Barba-Martin said his study of the two texts is quite "technical," yet when he speaks of Sarmiento he describes not the style...
...summer--in addition to the opening play by Shaw, which will open July 4 and run through July 24, the Loeb will host Life with Father and That Championship Season for 12 nights each. All three are geared to fulfilling the second need Crooks outlined--providing what Hamlin calls "background enrichment" for Summer School students and the community at large...