Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play slides into fantasy, too: the apartheid rules are so ridiculous at times they can only be treated as a bitter joke. An episode with a talking toilet that is reserved for whites only is funny, but there is an acid note somewhere not too far in the background...
Church drew upon reporting from Washington Correspondent William Blaylock, who interviewed some two dozen experts on the current state of the economy, and Economic Correspondent George Taber, who interviewed Administration policymakers. Taber also compiled background on Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and found that "it's impossible to spend more than five minutes around the man and not call him Mike. Mr. Secretary just wouldn't sound right." In addition to conducting interviews at the Treasury, Taber spent some time in Blumenthal's limousine, chatting with the Secretary as he went from one meeting to another...
...fairly active minority recruitment program, one that supplements the efforts of regular admissions staff members with those of alumni and students. This program reflects the understanding that recruiting minority students requires a different kind of effort from recruiting, say, football players, or students coming from a prep school background...
...results do not reflect a successful minority recruitment program. Of the 124 black students in the Class of 1981, for example, Jewett says that most come from middle-class backgrounds. More importantly, as Jewett points out, "the applicant pool, even with respect to minority applicants, tends in background to come from middle-class communities...
...easily? Jewett says, for example, he would like to get a Spanish-speaking person on the staff, one who "understands and can be a source of advice, intuition and experience about that community. Therefore, I want a person who will be a good admissions person, who comes from that background." He says there have not been a lot of good candidates...