Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background of the recent changes there is a vicious metaphor at work according to which a university is like a business: this makes the administration, the management, the faculty, the employees, and the students the customers. The metaphor elevates the administration from their rightful place as servants and protectors of the faculty to the position of their judges and overseers...
...This program might be useful if few or no South African blacks now attend Harvard and if there would be more with greater scholarship aid available. But if this is the case then either Harvard now discriminates against them or there are other constraints (for example, lack of adequate background, government interference, or lack of interest) that the Biko Fund would not remedy...
...life, been looking for help from a man." And so it is a record of the men--Southern intellectuals, and Southern homosexuals transplanted to New York, upper middle-class Amsterdam doctors, Kentucky Communists sustained by faith and New York drifters sustained by disbelief. Standing in the background is the shadowy outline of Robert Lowell, to whom she was married and with whom she shared a house at No. 67 Marlborough St. in Boston...
...terrific appointment because Pizzorno is a very prominent and extremely stimulating professor." Peter Lange, associate professor of Government said yesterday. Lange added that Pizzorno's background and writing in social theory "will be his greatest asset to the Sociology department...
...civil rights scene changed, as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters declined along with the nation's railways, Randolph's reputation was eclipsed by that of Martin Luther King Jr. and other black leaders. But he was still an insistent voice for moderation in the background. "Don't get emotional," cautioned the man who was always able to exert pressure without getting personally involved. Though he had often been critical of the AFL-CIO for its treatment of black members, he remained totally loyal to trade unionism as a salvation for social wrongs. "We never separated...