Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief sketch of Faulkner's background and way of life it is a competent job of reporting. As a critical analysis of his work it is incomplete and without depth...
Though Attorney General Young refused to comment on Bowles's attack (his Jewish background was known in his 1950 campaign), he proved that he was no man to back down from a fight. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought suit in behalf of ten Negro students who were barred from the white Milford, Del. high school (TIME, Oct. 11), Young appeared in court to back up the N.A.A.C.P. "Here," said he. "are ten children who were attending school without incident. Why were they taken out?" Young's answer: "Mob rule...
...upper-level science courses, to be sure they qualify. The College administration has shown its tacit disapproval of such over-concentration by not setting up a special pre-medical field. But it has never adequately advised pre-meds of scientific requirements, or the advantages of a liberal arts background, and as a result, the pointless duplication of medical school courses in the College has continued...
...More stress is put on the practical aspects of college success which are important enough, but which are already prompting Dartmouth undergraduates including freshmen to wonder whether or not the college has missed a few things in its experiment. They wonder whether the difference in capabilities and background of students has not been overlooked. It is questionable whether all Dartmouth freshmen need equal amounts of instruction in reading and study habits and in health education...
...royal enclosure at Ascot costs only ?10 (?7 for women), but for two centuries British horse-lovers have had more trouble getting in than a fishmonger's daughter trying to marry the Prince of Wales. A man needed more than the cash and the proper clothes; his social background had to shine pure and proud under the fierce scrutiny of the Duke of Norfolk and his committee of twelve inquisitors. Ever since Ascot was founded by Queen Anne in 1711, court rules have governed admission to the royal enclosure. And since Britain's Sovereign heads the Church...