Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Almost half the students who are applying to medical school are coming from a humanities background from Harvard," Geesaman said, adding that medicine is probably a more secure profession than academia...
...current State Sen. Stephen F. Lynch hosted the event, and The Crimson sent a reporter to cover it. The carefully-reported depiction of the event was an example of solid, timely coverage of local issues. The reporter, Richard M. Burnes '99, detailed the event's history and even provided background for the many jokes which he quoted in the piece. It clearly took a thorough knowledge of Boston politics to cover that event, which included many subtle comic references to recent local events. Burnes, who is from the local area, obviously knows his stuff. As the Reader Representative...
...conclusion to the first section, Historical Background and Original Intent, admits, "The substance of the Core has changed since its inception [in 1974] as scholarship has changed" (p. 16). Even within a 20-year span, the grand scheme for educating Harvard students has had to accommodate progress in the academy. It is de facto a malleable entity, intended to provide breadth of knowledge and approaches thereto in the face of ever-changing facts, theories and hierarchies of importance...
Part of the selection process included writing a "selection essay...describing your career goals, interests, and background," Hanafi said...
This early background helps explain the irrepressible fondness for popular culture--cigarette ads, Marilyns and so forth--that kept surfacing in his work in the 1950s, to the annoyance of some American critics. De Kooning was never a "pure" artist, partly because he was not trained to be one. But that was what enabled him to connect with America in a way few avant-garde painters had. He loved the lushness, the grittiness, the obtrusive weirdness of American cultural vernaculars. Though by the end of the '50s, laden with celebrity, he had become the man for younger artists to beat...