Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their color. Try as we might, we cannot destroy the fact that, as humans, we make instantaneous judgments based on our initial impressions of others. Martin Luther King's "Dream" is an ideal, but an ideal that will never be reached, at least not until we destroy the background prejudices that pervade our subconscious...
...fall course Chemistry 17, "Principles of Organic Chemistry," traditionally included the lab component of the year-long Chem 17/27 organic chemistry track, but students complained they did not have the adequate background from first-semester organic chemistry to be able to understand the experiments...
...labs were out of sequence with respect to the lecture material. Students just did not have the proper background for the labs," says Erik C. Chu '98, a Mather House resident who took Chemistry 17 last year, before the lab switch...
Four Nazi men and women smile complacently and sip at their coffee in a small European cafe. In the background, Jewish men and women, their mouths open eternally in silent screams, are shoved and herded into a huge gas chamber that had once been a bathhouse. This is "Banality of Evil/Struthof," one of the first works in Judy Chicago's latest exhibit, "The Holocaust Project," currently on display at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum...
PEOPLE SUPPOSEDLY IN THE KNOW have been saying for years that Irish poet Seamus Heaney would one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of course, people said the same thing about Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Graham Greene, illustrious authors and notorious nonwinners. Against that background, the Swedish Academy's selection of Heaney, announced last week, qualifies as something of a surprise: the laurel went to someone widely seen as deserving...