Word: context
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this sort of course, will hesitate to accept an assignment which they might savor but which they could certainly not utilize in terms of their academic world. Meanwhile the monumental Gide must find a casual comparative niche with Hardy and Conrad in English 62 rather than emerge in the context of his own culture...
...address at Soldiers Field is only one of many, and there are several books and a great number of articles in 'New Republic" and else where in which Mr. Wallace deals with more specific problems. If this speech is to be viewed properly, it must be placed i context with all his other speeches and writings...
...following quotations of Henry A. Wallace are presented to help fit tonight's speech into context. They are all from recent issues of the New Republic, of which he is editor...
Taylor's incidental anecdotes, sketches of military and political leaders, descriptions of Indian scenes and atmospheres give a concrete context to his meditations-which tend to run on at times. His book is loosely stitched together, but it has a generous, large and lucid air, living up to its title...
...talk about it. In Ohio, Pulitzer Prizewinner ROBERT PENN WARREN (All the King's Men) was deep in a long ballad about the frontier, and also writing a novel "about a man who undertook a deed of light, but who, because he undertook it without understanding its context, performed in the end a deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel...