Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poems, which mingle his thoughts with those of other, indeterminate voices, but in scattered remarks elsewhere: a few slurs in his letters, a stunning prescription in a 1933 lecture for the establishment of a "living tradition" in a society: "What is still more important is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable." Such an abominable opinion cannot be excused, yet Eliot has defenders who find the issue regrettable but overblown. British Poet D.J. Enright notes, "A friend of mine made the best observation: 'But good Lord...
Fein, who has no background in the health sciences, comes to Harvard from the University of Chicago, where he served as director of that university's financial planning and budget departments for three years...
...questioning Dukakis' patriotism, Bush has attacked both Dukakis' immigrant background and liberal philosophy. The first was a key component of Dukakis' populist "American Dream" theme which was originally so appealing to minority, underprivileged, and middle class voters. "Hey, this guy is one of us," they started to say. That is, until Bush began to suggest that Dukakis was not "one of us" precisely because he was too tied to his immigrant roots, as well as too tied to a liberal-academic ideology outside the political mainstream. Result? Dukakis has been much quieter on his immigrant background and ACLU membership...
...circumstances under which voters favor higher taxes; characteristics and competence of George Bush and Michael Dukakis; attitudes toward Dan Quayle; desire for change from Reagan Administration policies, August, 1987-August, 1988; familiarity with candidates; negative voting results; black and white: two photographs: White House, Dan Quayle, both used as background for charts; color reproduction: cartoon of man sitting in chair, back view, and deciding how to vote...
...modest administrative style, one quite different from the stern, autocratic ways of Chun, who favored elevated, thronelike chairs and sat at a separate desk when meeting with his Cabinet. Roh introduced round tables, which he shares with colleagues and visitors. In his campaign, Roh had insisted that despite his background as a soldier, he was, at heart, "an ordinary...