Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endless autopsy, the coroner was able to prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment on NBC's Wide, Wide World also had a medical background, as the camera moved into a Baltimore schoolroom to record the moving responses of deaf children to the rhythms of music communicated through their fingertips...
Utah & the Saints. John D. Lee was born at Kaskaskia, Ill. in 1812. His background was Roman Catholic, but in 1838 he became a Mormon and was adopted as a "foster-son" by Brigham Young himself. Lee recognized and obeyed only two superiors-God Almighty and Brigham Young. If these two seemed to differ, then Lee went along with Young as the man who knew more than God about Utah and politics. So when the Mormons decided to press southward to establish new cities and expand the Kingdom of the Saints, Young made Lee one of the principal leaders...
Although the School has long operated on the theory that what an applicant takes in college is less important than how well he does it, Griswold claimed that many students are not getting the training they need to become "not merely lawyers, but cultured lawyers with a broad background...
They maintained that an alumni group would be best suited to fulfill these aims in decisions of university policy because it would contain diversified opinions, as well as a general background of the particular school...
...from this background, represented by Wolgemut in the woodcut and Schongauer in engraving, that the great transition figure of Albrecht Durer emerged. But the beauty of this exhibit is the opportunity to see the Germanic elements in his art, as well as his foreign innovations. It is clearly brought out, that Durer was both the culmination of the medieval tradition as well as the herald of a new interest in classical forms. The ideals of plasticity proportionality, perspective and clarity that were absorbed from the south combined in Durer with a linear style and interest in detail...