Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee and the city have been pleased by the performance of the newly appointed superintendent of schools, William Lannon. Glenn S. Koocher '71, a Convention '75-endorsed incumbent, was emphatic in his praise for Lannon: "He's simply an excellent superindendent, with an excellent background, and excellent insight." Lannon is a newcomer to the Cambridge school system and his popular acceptance as superintendent may be viewed as something of a victory for the progressives, who urged his hiring after a search committee had said that no equally qualified candidate could be found in Cambridge...
...legal issue involved in the Crossman case was the common law issue of prior restraint, an area in which British courts tend to be less concerned with protecting public acess to information than American ones. Hovering in the background, though not officially invoked, was the Official Secrets Act of 1940, passed under wartime conditions and giving the government broad powers to muzzle publication...
Even though he isn't an active player, McInally keeps a football schedule, working out every day with the Bengals. He says the players don't resent the elitism of his Harvard background. "They never hold it against a Harvard guy," he says. "I always feel they wish they could have had the experience I had. There's a lot of intelligence on the Bengals." The teasing he gets because of Harvard is good natured: Isaac Curtis calls him "The Wizard...
...They always tell you it doesn't mean anything if you're called back, but you can't help thinking it does," Kinsley says. In his own essay Kinsley says he gently ribbed his religious background and discovered to his horror that a member of his committee was what he calls "a real holy-roller type." They brought Kinsley back, and the active church-goer asked him if he wished to retract his comment about religion. Kinsley says he was in rather a quandary, because he could not decide whether to make the man happy or stick by the reference...
...Hoffa understood that he couldn't make it in the world by working on an oil rig like his father. With no education and no wealthy background he had to steal money from somebody--and first he stole it from the bosses, then fleeced his membership while getting them huge wage hikes (he denies this in his book). He had little conception of working people rising together; he had fierce loyalty to his men, but Hoffa never believed in such a mysterious thing as class solidarity...