Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though a papal election is always a momentous news event, the surprising selection of Karol Cardinal Wojtyla last week as the 264th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church attracted exceptional interest. To report on the background of Polish-born John Paul II, and to assess the reactions of his former parishioners, TIME dispatched Washingtpn Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski to Cracow...
...classic case of scientific serendipity. The two young scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., were using a hornlike antenna to "listen" to the faint background hiss created by stars and other radio sources in the Milky Way galaxy. What they picked up was a faint echo of the creation, the remnant of the cataclysmic fireball, or Big Bang, that gave birth to the universe 15 to 20 billion years...
...first draft of some comedy routine, we see scenes of Midwood High School, which he attended for three uneventful years, and the playground at Avenue L and East 17th Street where he spent much time as a growing boy. Trying to give us a feel for his background, the camera sweeps past the Orthodox Jews buying fruit at the numerous stands on Avenue J, past the movie house and the pizzerias and the bagel stores, across the colorful, comfortable panorama that is middle-class Brooklyn. Yet even here we are denied glimpses of the essential Allen. We never...
...Corporation issued a "Statement of Policy on Conflicts of Interest for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," which discounted Pusey's concerns about academic autonomy. This document left conflict of interest judgements to individual professors, and counts "consultant services making use of the employee's general research or scientific background, where there is no possibility of preferred disclosure of University research results to an outside organization," as a "clearly permissible activity...
...court a frolicking, unregal place where games and horseplay abound. With the help of Designer Sally Jacobs' simple set, he reaches boldly for a world that cannot be onstage: the great battles. The foreground is partly enclosed by six long translucent panels; behind them is a deep background, a shadowy terrain full of strife, the comings and goings of soldiers, sailors, messengers and serfs...