Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work in years to come. Rome was not just a boneyard of suggestive antiques; it was full of living art whose plasticity, color and narrative richness surpassed anything he could see in France -- Caravaggio, Pietro da Cortona, the Carracci. But Pozzo's main gift to Poussin was the intellectual background that enabled a melancholy, impetuous young Frenchman to become the chief peintre-philosophe...
...behave in the White House, voters were almost forced to depend on factors of character and personality to predict presidential performance. As they have through much of the campaign, both Bush and Dukakis peppered the debate with carefully chosen code words designed to camouflage their vulnerabilities. Bush, whose privileged background is alien to the life experience of most Americans, kept harping on the word values as he proclaimed that he was in tune with "the heartbeat of the country." For Dukakis, who often seems closer in spirit to Roger Rabbit than Rambo, his mantra was the adjective tough. Whether...
...Illinois at Urbana and a former graduate student of Harvard's History Department, Frye has studied Middle Eastern subjects since he was in junior high, when a copy of Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker fascinated him for the first time with that part of the world. With his extensive background in oriental studies, both at Illinois and at Harvard--and later in 1946 as a member of the Society of Fellows here--Frye felt that Harvard needed to offer a more comprehensive program of study on the Middle East. It was at that point, four decades ago, that he became involved...
College activities can be listed and describedunder Education, Experience, Activities, or mostbriefly under Personal Background depending uponhow much emphasis and space you want to give them.If you've had leadership positions,responsibilities for organizing or initiating newprograms, financial management or any kind ofcareer-related experiences, be sure it is clearlydescribed. Explain for the non-Harvard reader whatthe organization...
...Personal Background: On a one-pageresume you have had to leave out a great deal.This section may be used to mention informationthat you consider important such as: "Have workedevery term to help pay college expenses deliveringnewspapers, washing dishes, bartending, driving ashuttle bus." "Born and grew up in New York City."(Where you spent your youth may be an importantmessage to the employer.) "Played varsity lacrosseand intramural basketball...