Word: context
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many different enthusiasms-in which, however, there is one consistent factor-a defiance of materialism." Few novels are as absorbing as this collective biography of the Pre-Raphaelites; few are as funny. And no other book on Rossetti and his circle has set them so accurately in their historical context, has given to the queer, excessive things they did so clear a historical meaning. For the Pre-Raphaelites, says Gaunt, are the only optimistic rebel artists who have so far defied industrial civilization. "They would not adapt themselves to their age. Its most brilliant misfits, they invented time and place...
...people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does his job as soberly as if it were a military assignment, can quite convince anyone that he is anything but the too-familiar, patriotic young actor, doing his best not to look like...
...were almost the words that Russia wanted to hear from Molotov, back from London and Washington with his agreements for war and post-war collaboration (TIME, June 22). They were not quite a final declaration that he had been promised a second front this year. But, in their whole context, they were an unequivocal statement that Russia now expects her Allies to open a second front-in Europe, in 1942. In this sense, they were a reminder to Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt...
...page biography of the famous night rider, silversmith, dentist, bell caster, copperplate engraver, and revolutionary politician is absorbing reading. Reason: Paul Revere lived so close to the center of the historical storm of Boston (colonial population about 15,000) which influenced world history ever since that the context makes him impressive...
Referring to two recent smear attacks, that against labor's 40-hour week and Standard Oil's prewar cartel agreement with German collaborators, Dr. Selekman contended that in both cases the real issues involved were obscured by "wrenching them out of their historic context and plunging them into the tense emotional atmosphere...