Word: backgrounding
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Most notably, the Divinity School and the Graduate School of Education offer a joint program which trains secondary-school teachers who want a religious background. That program is the only officially organized joint degree, but students have found ways to combine the MTS with disciplines from law and education study to joint religion-politics courses...
...Polish-born American, I want to add to your analysis of Chernenko. The new leader has a round face, indicating a stubbornness that is typical of a Russian peasant. In spite of this, people from this background are easier to negotiate with and to handle. They are emotional, honest and, if properly approached, rational. In contrast to Chernenko, Yuri Andropov had the profile of a Western intellectual, and this image initially misled the world. There is no mask on Chernenko...
Glenn made fun of Hart's J.F.K. evocations but then rhetorically fumbled. "I'm not trying to imitate anyone," he said, "but John Glenn." In a sense he is doing a self-impersonation: after down-playing his astronaut background through much of the campaign, he used "the right stuff' as a tag line in his Southern television ads and played up his military past. In Pine Bluff, Ark., he piloted an antique Stearman training biplane ("That was fun!" he said) and at Ozark, Ala., drove an M-60 tank in figure eights ("That...
...obvious chip off the old block, was running (badly) for President. Jimmy Carter (who made it) and John Anderson (who did not) were virtually lay ministers before and during their political careers. Now we are inundated with Presidents and candidates who have a strong evangelical tinge or background. Both Walter Mondale and his wife are the children of preachers. Gary Hart, who once planned to become a minister, comes out of deep Bible country in Kansas, attended a religious college, then went on to the Yale Divinity School, though he long ago abandoned regular churchgoing. The Rev. Jesse Jackson...
What's going on here? In the first 77 years of this century we had only one President, Woodrow Wilson, who was so clearly shaped by a church background. His father was a Presbyterian minister. While we have always had religious men, or those professing to be religious men, in the White House, the fusing of spiritual zeal and presidential power is a fairly recent development...