Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence which tends to exonerate him." Dean Michael Severn of Columbia University Law School looked closely at the transcript for the crucial March 21, 1973, meeting at which, Nixon later said, he learned for the first time that White House aides were deeply enmeshed in Watergate. Sovern concluded: "In context, the transcript would support a prima facie case for impeachment." One former high Nixon Administration official said bluntly and bitterly that the President's impeachment was now guaranteed, adding: "If I were Pete Rodino [Judiciary Committee chairman], I'd say we don't need anything else. I'd say thank...
...Young Artists," then, was a challenge to the University. A challenge to provide more adequate space for the production of art, and to distribute that space more equitably. A challenge, too, to allow those of us who are so inclined the opportunity to perfect our artistic skills within the context of a liberal arts education. And primarily, a challenge to provide assistance in the exhibition of undergraduate work...
Each of us had different reasons for participating. Within all of us, however, was a common frustration. Working primarily outside the context of an official University course or activity, the majority of us had no outlet for our work, no place to exhibit what we had done. We shared a sense that the University should take more interest in its artists; to this extent we were united in a common purpose. It was our aim to prove that an interesting exhibit could be assembled exclusively of undergraduate work...
Three centuries of tonality have led the modern listener to expect certain familiar kinds of progressive harmonies, but masses and motets written in the old church modes presuppose a different set of expectations. Just as the modal fabric of Renaissance music is foreign to the twentieth century ear, the context of modern music--a permanent background of muzak in supermarkets, television soundtracks and the stereo next door--bears no resemblance to the silence that Byrd and Gesualdo labored to fill. There are no grand gestures in this music, nothing simple for the listener or the performer to grab onto...
...context of the last 20 years, Wright said, the Brown decision provided a crucial forum in 1954 for the national debate over racial equality. "The Southern courtroom became a theater with the whole nation as its audience," Wright said