Word: context
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finding two articles which rise above the sub-mediocre and "enigmatic" norm, Mr. A. can find no words to explain his sense of their quality or their meaning. He only mentions them briefly in a negative context. He also conveniently avoids a judgment on the sincerity or validity of the point of view expressed in Mr. Smith's letter.... Sara Dakin...
...basic stuff of the news is vivid, accurate reporting of day-by-day events. Sometimes this is the best that can be done, and readers must make their own interrelationships between separate events. But at other times it becomes possible to find, in seemingly unrelated happenings, a context that reflects an entire nation's mood. This week events in five countries enabled TIME correspondents and editors to take a searching look at several such situations. Items...
...records explaining what it is that the hearer is hearing continue to attract large audiences and fat profits. "I want to learn to appreciate art," is a common pronouncement of anxious masses fearful whether they are not "complete" persons until they do. It is such a context that gives so great importance to the methods and approach of the Faculty of Design in its attempt to enable a student to achieve a real understanding of the visual arts...
...example, God is the answer to the question implied in human finitude; but if the question is posed in the context of the threat of non-being that is implied in human existence, God, says Tillich, "must be called the infinite power of being which resists the threat of nonbeing. If anxiety is defined as the awareness of being finite, God must be called the infinite ground of courage . . . If the notion of the Kingdom of God appears in correlation with the riddle of our historical existence, it must be called the meaning, fulfillment, and unity of history. In this...
...liberal theology, which derive the Christian message from man's natural self-development and the unfolding of human history. He also attacks the combination of natural and supranatural theology found in Roman Catholicism, with its "socalled arguments for 'the existence of God'" (although in another context he is appreciative of the Catholic Church's preservation of the sacraments, which he feels have virtually disappeared in Protestantism...