Word: backgrounder
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...grew up in a community that a lot of Harvard Latinos grew up in,” said Joseph Torres-Rangel, a performer in Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan and a student at the Graduate School of Education. “And it was nice to see someone in that background who has really become a leader in his field. He has really broke through...
...concluded her remarks, Foster urged everyone in the audience to be active in supporting equal opportunities, greater recognition of women’s needs and the celebration of all life, regardless of its “shape, size, race, religion, age, location or background...
...work our way past folks preparing gallons of tuna salad and corn salad in vats that look like enormous Tupperware. Yards of vegetables are lined up neatly on twenty-feet steel counters, ready to become salad fixings. King-Kong-sized industrial mixers and pumping devices churn away in the background. This ain’t your house kitchen—it’s the meat and bones of HUDS...
...Italian Renaissance painting is a field I’m very interested in, but since I haven’t found the chance to take a course in it, I can’t really say that it’s my specific background in art history,” said Platts, who plans to take Smith’s joint-listed course. “I try to find ways to immerse myself in the field because no formal courses are offered at Harvard, or none that I know...
...Maats did more than just protect weak and susceptible Adams. He went far and beyond the normal constraints of interhouse warfare during this year’s Primal Scream, painting himself in yellow and running around Harvard Yard with the Soviet national anthem playing in the background in defiance of Kirkland hostilities, frostbite and public embarrassment...