Word: backgrounder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concern of the faculty is Altshuler’s academic background. Altshuler, a political scientist, has been a member of the Design School’s faculty since 1988, but some professors believe he lacks the design expertise necessary to run the school...
José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, a supporter of Altshuler, said in an interview from Washington, D.C. last night that he believes Altshuler’s background has enhanced his leadership of the Design School...
...don’t want people graduating just with an American history background,” Professor of History James Hankins said. Three-fourths of undergraduates focus on American history, he said...
...sketches and experiments, which seem minimal, if perfectly accurate, in which the models have expressions which would illegible to strangers, if not for Hockney’s translation.A series of six small canvases from 1997 show no more than the faces of six friends. Each has a deep green background that plays off the contrasting red tones that saturate the faces, but despite the connections their aesthetic and their proximity draw from one to the next, each face promulgates the personality embedded in the collection of noses, eyes, and cheekbones.Despite the beauty of the rendering of sketches and the immediacy...
...With the fight against Communism now replaced by the War on Terror, John Paul's successor faces a wholly new, more explosive political challenge. Not only does Pope Benedict XVI not have first-hand experience "behind the lines" in a Muslim society, like John Paul's background in Krakow, but the reach of his words may be inherently limited. Rather than facing a godless society's attack on the freedom to believe, Islamic terrorism presents a warped interpretation of a competing faith...