Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethnic and racial minorities play in the Harvard microcosm of American society. If one's view is that minorities should simply blend into the mainstream student population, suppressing their cultural differences in order to assimilate completely, Harvard is right on track. A student's race, ethnicity or disadvantaged background could be considered in the admissions process knowing fully that, in choosing to matriculate at Harvard, the student would become part and parcel of a substantively homogenous student body...
...critical repute might have skipped through in about half that length. The trouble with the movie version of this tale is that it is entirely, and rather glumly, preoccupied with that labyrinthine plot. There is no time left in the film for those observations about character, setting and political background that at least gave the original fiction the force of caring craftsmanship and sober moral concern...
AGAINST the background of this deadlock appears Duarte's big gamble this week, to shuck his past policy and meet with his leftist oppostion. Though, by all accounts, the talks were (in relative terms, at least) a success, Duarte is still in between a rock and a hard place. He is firmly against the concept of power-sharing advanced by the guerrillas; he knows too well the scant success brooked by moderates in sharing rule with Marxist guerillas. But at the same time the guerillas are understandably wary about answering Duarte's call to join elections; they know too well...
Fraser scrupulously includes a chronology of important events to help those readers unfamiliar with that period in British history. But even for those without any history background, each chapter provides enough information to stand on its own for the average reader...
When Scanlon joined the Princeton department in 1966, after earning his B.A. at Princeton and his Ph.D. at Harvard, he was a young mathematical philosopher with a background in logic. Sometime after 1974, when he co-authored a paper with Goldfarb, Scanlon switched to the field of moral philosophy. Already, though, Scanlon had expressed an interest in such questions of ethics as freedom of expression...