Word: context
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have one of the best (When I See an Elephant Fly) of Dumbo's nine tuneful melodies, none of which compares with the singable Heigh-Ho. One (Look Out for Mr. Stork) has lyrics that are open to smart-alecky interpretation when removed from the picture's context...
Professor Kittredge's examinations became famous for their toughness and unpredictability. One commentator recalled from his own experience, "two score or more lines with the terse commands: 'Indicate context,' 'Summarize briefly,' or more unreasonable still, 'Quote remainder of speech.' The books come back bathed in red ink and trembling with neuroses...
...secondly to extend his domination over Europe." So he arranges Hitler's speeches in chronological order, divides the book into chapters corresponding to the successive political shocks which Europe has suffered in the last 20 years. A table of world events sets each speech in its proper historical context. They are enough to make a good democrat's blood boil...
Surely you have hit an all-time high in context, reporting and editing in your article on Agriculture in the issue of July 21. . . . Reprint this same article a million strong and see that every university in the land has copies, to enable every student to study this contribution to sound thinking for the future. It is excellent in every way, even to the deft sense of humor running through the description of the various men involved...
More important is Biographer White's reappraisal of Shelley as a mind. By bringing together a mass of 19th-Century critical opinion, Author White shows that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context, Author White highlights Shelley's real meaning for our time. In a day when the same old exaltation of the masses, the same revolutionary terror and dictatorship, have culminated in World War II, the family line from Marat to Lenin to Mussolini to Hitler is revealed as passing through...