Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view postwar Japan-a nation laid waste, exhausted in defeat, sorting out by slow social processes the stray dogs that forage among the ruins. Though the film runs two hours, much longer than necessary, its best scenes are unforgettably good. Cheering throngs at a Tokyo baseball stadium provide background for one tingling chase. In a city overcome by heat, the camera searches a line of chorus girls collapsed on a dressing-room floor, flesh glistening with sweat, each face a breathless distillation of despair. After a murder, a closeup of a splattered tomato-despite the obvious symbolism-suddenly, almost insidiously...
Finally Senior wages war; he enlists Bach and Miles Davis as steady background artillry. Nevertheless, two or three times a day, with his roommates, he gives in to orgy. The room has a word for it. They Beatleize...
Most eloquent of these is that of Mary I. Bunting. She has suggested that the ideal science for general education purposes is microbiology, since, in this field, it is possible to pick up enough background in one course, supposedly, to understand the problems which researchers are currently studying...
Against this background of confusion, Dean Ford named a ten-member committee in October, 1962, to review the program. The Committee, headed by Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, would ask, Ford said, "basic questions about the proper role of the American college at a time when the greater part of our students are going on to graduate and professional schools...
...nonacademic lives of their students. They stay aloof from the children, attempting to isolate hours spent in class from hours spent at home and on the streets. Lowe is convinced that this cannot be done. To communicate with a child, an instructor must know and make allowances for his background. Today, however, "teachers do not understand the problems of their students because they are not part of the environment. After school they crawl into their cubbyholes--teaching is just a job." Although de facto segregation does not especially concern Lowe, a strong faculty commitment to helping students is obviously inhibited...