Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Figuring that-coming from Harvard and all-I was probably either lively or articulate, I resolved to be a dignified part-time book salesman with an Ivy League background, and, of course to be immensely successful. Neither aspiration worked...
...career of 48 years; in Christchurch, New Zealand. Marsh belonged to the classic school of British writers who preferred gentleman detectives - like her own Roderick Alleyn-and who reveled in complicated puzzle plots. A director and producer in both Britain and New Zealand, Marsh used her theater experiences as background in such books as Night at the Vulcan (1951) and Killer Dolphin...
...paintings in show that have attacted the most attention are a pair of scenes of a Jewish cemetery which have never before been hung side by side. A departure for Ruisdnel, these paintings depcit an allegorical subject. Moonlight strikes a tomb, a ruined cathedral looms in the background, dead beeches litter the foreground, shrouded women walk among the graves, all of which suggests the hopeless mortality of man and his inevitable doom. But Ruisdael is not entirely morbid, and he inclines a faint but perceptible rainbow on the horizon--a glimmer of hope and he possibility of rebirth...
...premise of such heady deliberations is that graffiti is art-a premise supported over the past decade by several people with brains. In 1973 Twyla Tharp introduced the ballet Deuce Coupe, which used the doubly delightful background of music by the Beach Boys and six graffitists shooting spray cans at panels...
...pressures are undoubtedly fierce, not only from the cuts but from rising costs, we nevertheless deplore the possibility that Harvard could lose one of its most equitable policies. The diversity Harvard values so highly rests more than anything else on the guarantee that students from different economic and social backgrounds--not just geographic ones--can mingle Without full aid. "diversity" of background becomes an insignificant variation among the rich. Not only will some students be unable to afford to come here if admitted, worse, if Harvard publicly renounces it policy, students from poor families will not even dare to apply...