Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates stirs them the way past heroes like Adlai Stevenson or Eugene McCarthy did. No issue even faintly matches the emotion of their stand against the Viet Nam War. On top of that, they are blamed-by fellow Democrats, no less-for the growth of Big Government. In the background, there is the now familiar conviction that liberal remedies have not worked: problems did not get solved simply by "throwing money" at them...
Maeno's background included some porn film credits (most recent: Tokyo Emmanuelle), two broken marriages and a previous suicide attempt. An ardent admirer of the ancient Japanese samurai code, he also esteemed Yukio Mishima, the flamboyant novelist who committed hara-kiri in 1970 to protest Japan's loss of traditional values. Many members of Japan's restive right wing have felt that Kodama damaged their cause by acting as a conduit for American bribes-an error that Maeno evidently was seeking to avenge...
...agree. A shrewd political strategist, Callaghan has two main assets as a potential party leader: broad popularity and the "bottom," as the British call it, to put renegades in their place. "Sunny Jim" is also the only politician among the eggheads in the party's highest councils whose background reflects that of most Labor voters. The son of a Royal Navy chief petty officer, Callaghan quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother. He entered politics through union elections, eventually rose through Labor's ranks to hold all three of the major Cabinet posts: Chancellor...
...Rosenfeld, and Martin Balsam, who played Managing Editor Howard Simons?had to be present on the set every day because Pakula had decided to shoot the city room sequences in "deep focus." This meant that even when these players did not have any lines, they were visible in the background of most scenes. They coped as cheerfully as they could with the situation. Robards would often simply retire to "his"?that is, Bradlee's?office and read the books that had presumably helped shape the character of the man he was playing (needless to say, Bradlee's office library...
Back in the late 1960s, President Bok, then dean of the Law School, realized an increasing number of Law School students were taking jobs in government without a strong public policy background. After some discussion with John Dunlop, dean of the Faculty at the time, and Donald K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Bok decided to push for a broad ranging public policy program at Harvard that would train this new breed of student for careers in public service...