Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who love their movies can only wish him and his comrades an easy landing and a safe passage home. It is, as Herzog says, "difficult to be German and to have our historical background." Perhaps. But out of that background have come some of the most exciting films of the decade. - Gerald Clarke
...Richardson, done by the former Commerce Secretary himself. An inveterate doodler, Richardson, who also served as Attorney General in the Richard Nixon administration until the infamous Saturday Night Massacre, loaded his self-portrait with symbolism. He is painted into a corner, Richardson pointed out, but signal flags in the background impart the message: "I expect to refloat." Tiny sperm whales on his blue necktie recall the adage, "The spouting whale gets harpooned." Quipped Richardson of his canvas: "You may ask yourself, 'Why not the best?' The answer, of course, is that it's too expensive...
William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, then criticized the philosophical basis of the core, which he said is a vain attempt to insure a broad but superficial intellectual background for all students...
Erickson specializes in econometrics and economic planning, particularly Soviet economic planning. This background is unusual, Roy Radner, Harvard's visiting Taussig Research Professor and Erickson's thesis adviser at Berkeley, said yesterday. Mathematical theory is usually applied to western economies. he added...
Perkins said the department selected Erickson primarily for his background in theory and planning...