Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other male singer is Walt Winter, Swarthmore '56, a medical student with a West Indian background. As a singer, Winter is somewhat more impressive than Jones, but none of the three can be said to have an exceptionally outstanding voice. The charm of the show is rather in the overall composition than in the quality of singing itself...
...death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned to return to Cincinnati and Procter & Gamble in the fall (TIME, March 16). Topping the list of possible successors: Donald Quarles, eminently suited with his scientific and administrative background and his six years of Defense Department experience...
Meet McGraw (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The background music may not win any awards, and neither will McGraw, but his reruns still prove him to be one of the more efficient, amiable private eyes...
Moreover, there is no tutorial; and want of focus can bring out the worst in a Wellesley education--a fine background, but no individual discipline worth attaching it to. Now this is a problem of most women's education--not just for oft-maligned Wellesley. Yet it seems more pressing for this college: for with its wealth of material: classes with a high average on the SATs, a low faculty-student ratio and a good endowment--it is geared to turn out enlightened, intelligent, and placid students. The waste provokes the maligning...
...education is concerned is expected to be more flexible than that of her husband. The man can concentrate his education with a career in mind: his wife must usually adapt hers to him. Consequently, it is better that the girl come out of school with a wide-ranging background (even at the expense of its being a little nebulous) rather than emerging a rigidly intellectually formed botanist or medieval philosopher or drama critic or anything else...