Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANDREA LEE'S first book, Russian Journal, received unanimous praise and was nominated for a National Book Award. It also never mentioned the fact that its author "happened to be Black." Fortunately, Lee chose to write about her background in Sarah Phillips. The book is mislabeled a "novel"; it is really a collection of finely shaped autobiographical short stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker--that could stand alone, but are held together by the common themes of confusion, intellectuality, the Black bourgeoisie and the civil rights movement...
...drama was played against a background chorus of anguish from farmers. Rural politicians, representatives of agriculture organizations and even individual growers and dairymen wandered through the Capitol to plead for emergency assistance. The 105-member South Dakota legislature voted itself a special $95,000 appropriation to fly to Washington en masse for a day of lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators...
...marriage or motherhood in order to pursue her aim of being a doctor--and she insisted on undergoing the same training and receiving the same certification as her male colleagues. Without this, Blackwell realized that women could never gain true equality in the professions--differences in training or background would always be singled out as inferiorities...
Packaging, in general, should be a helpful set of guidelines for students applying to less-than-selective law schools, especially if those students have a weak background in competitive applications...
...against this background that the Camarena case created such a furor. The kidnaping of the Mexican-born, naturalized American agent, known as Kiki, seemed to bring out long-simmering resentments among U.S. officials about Mexican law enforcement in general. Above all, the officials were irate over the toughest of bilateral problems: the reach and political power of the crime barons who control Mexico's multibillion-dollar drug trade...