Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MaryAnne Golon, TIME's assistant picture editor for special projects, was struck by the natural excitement the Stones seem to generate. "You can plan where people should stand, what they should wear and which kind of background to use," she notes, "but you can't plan them." She didn't need to. Long before the session was over, TIME had caught that old Stones magic...
...application for an Irish passport. His motives are mixed: "The fact is I wanted an Irish passport for the simple reason that I was eligible for one. Trying to get one would both add structure to my journey and force me into that examination of my Irish background that I had always so rigorously rejected...
Hitler's antagonists had changed over the years, and now the important newcomer on the international scene was Neville Chamberlain, who had replaced Stanley Baldwin as Conservative Prime Minister of Britain in the spring of 1937. Chamberlain's background was in business; he believed in orderly negotiations. He had no experience in dealing with an unscrupulous improviser like Hitler, but he nonetheless invited himself to a meeting with the Fuhrer. Hitler received him in Berchtesgaden, and soon began ranting about the Czechs. He said he would not "tolerate any longer that a small, second-rate country should treat the mighty...
...York Times reporter covering the Iran-Contra scandal, Brinkley has a sound understanding of the motives that drive politicians to involve themselves and their nation in Nicaraguan politics. With this kind of background, it is no wonder that the strongest part of Brinkley's novel which details the events leading to an American invasion of Nicaragua--is the psychological characterizations of his players...
...some ways, Goodman's work feels like a gimmick. With her unusual background--growing up in a Jewish home in Hawaii while also spending time in England and then attending Harvard--the author has unique experiences to draw from for her stories. With this kind of life, it seems that anything she wrote would have to be original and thought-provoking. One of the author's characters, a poet and taxi-driver in New York explains this reasoning...