Word: backgrounder
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...Alone with Pollack, he fills us in on his background: Humble beginnings in a Jewish family in Toronto, where he liked to build little toy cities on the living room floor, and where a teacher suggested at an early age that architecture might be something he?d like to explore. After that the Gehrys moved to Los Angeles, where he drove a truck for a couple of years (once delivering a kitchen suite to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who took a shine to the kid) and where he eventually enrolled at the USC architecture school. There he somehow managed...
McLoughlin said he envisioned a very student-driven space with music constantly playing in the background. Ideally, he said, student employees would bring their own iPod mixes and stick them in a dock already there...
...From floating the name of a respected former CIA operations chief as Hayden's prospective No. 2 to emphasizing his liberal arts background and calling him "An Independent Thinker And A Nonconformist" in a White House fact sheet, the campaign was intended to assuage doubts expressed by House Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and some Senate Republicans about installing the Air Force general atop the nation's civilian spy agency...
...along with his deputy Michael Sulick after declining to fire Sulick following a falling-out with Goss' chief of staff. Negroponte said Kappes "was one of their leading case officers and a leading member of their clandestine service. So I think his skill sets, together with General Hayden's background, will form a very nice balance... I think that's going to be a boost for the morale out there...
...problem is that in fiction, let alone life, the singular self does matter. Trying to make a Jersey boy who shares Roth's cultural background and birth year (1933) into an archetype, effacing his individuality, inhibits the reader from feeling the protagonist's loss emotionally, rather than just intellectually. (And denying him a name creates pronoun confusion whenever "he" talks to another man.) That Everyman's hero dies is universal. How he dies is not: he is alone, isolated from his brother, sons and ex-wives because of his traits and choices--often selfish, childish ones--but Roth has sketched...