Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked our correspondents around the world to tap every source -from the not-for-attribution background of intelligence officers to the firsthand reports of returning travelers, including journalists. Scores of such sources were interviewed: our correspondent in Eastern Europe found a Polish girl recently returned from Hanoi; the Washington bureau talked with a schoolmate of Giap's now living in the nation's capital; the Boston bureau interviewed a French journalist-scholar now at Harvard who has been close to the problems of the Viet Nam area for more than 20 years. More general sources were readily available...
With this background, no one was especially surprised when the room-and-board change was kept a secret from RGA until it was formally announced as a fait accompli (letters to parents announcing the change had been sent from the President's office that morning). What did concern the few students who feel that RGA could perform a useful purpose was what the move suggested about the organization's current function. Most Radcliffe students lost interest in RGA long ago. The legislature has been virtually forced to concern itself almost exclusively with the subject of social rules. After a year...
...time, although few schools have been able to escape the lockstep which he describes so vividly. But most medical schools continue to make certain basic assumptions which govern the teaching of medicine. The first assumption is that everyone should have essentially the same educational experience, regardless of interest, background, aptitude or ultimate choice of career within medicine. The second assumption is that some exposure to every held of medicine is desirable. It is universally accepted that it is impossible "to cover" all medical knowledge in medical school, but each specialty and each scientific discipline demands the students' attention during some...
...simulate an emergency rendezvous during the actual Apollo moon flight, they moved Gemini eight miles above and 86 miles ahead of the ATDA, then attempted to close in again with the aid of ground controllers. This time they ran into trouble-losing sight of the ATDA against the confusing background of the earth below, consuming eleven hours and 30 extra pounds of fuel before accomplishing a rendezvous, and exhausting themselves in the process...
Margot Fonteyn. Against a hazy background of sumptuously costumed choristers arranged like figures in a Renaissance tapestry, Dame Margot was a floating vision in white. Dancing with the Paris Opera's Attilio Labis, she portrayed a maiden-monarch torn between love and duty, melting from sternly regal poses into flights of rapturous lyricism. Marina Svetlova's straightforward choreography was in perfect accord with Purcell's music-buoyant, charming, exquisitely simple...