Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mamluk Architecture of Cairo is a collection of photographs by Fikret Yegul. They try to set the Mamluk buildings in the context of a real city, not as isolated architectural objects. At the Fogg, through...
...will consider broader questions, such as the place of the college in a University context, in the weekly "philosophical" discussions (as some members term them) of the entire committee...
Pirsig's Phaedrus was a lonely man who, despite an IQ of 170, had trouble with his studies. He began at 15 as a college freshman studying science, but he soon could not keep his ability to reason within any accepted academic context. From hypotheses he would get not proofs but only more hypotheses. Because his mind kept searching for an underlying universal principle, he switched to philosophy and eventually went to India to study oriental thought. Phaedrus-Pirsig never thought small. His aim was to do nothing less than revamp the whole scientific method that operated from...
While from his perspective such a view is understandable, in the context of the prison reform movement, it is questionable. Most prisoners are not successful people and prison just reinforces a person's lack of self-worth. What Hoffa proposes is attractive, and if adopted would certainly be helpful--jobs and parole and improved facilities are fine...
...revealed ending of Magritte. But what is impressive is that all this is done so lightly, so cleverly, that it ought to embarrass the critic to get heavy about it. Stoppard's plots are so well devised, every funny line is so well ensconced in its context, that the critic is put in danger of being fooled himself, and looking the fool if he tries to put his hands on the heart of these plays. The only real inspector must be the spectator, on the scene...