Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editors of this Dump Truck hope to establish two points: that a radical tactical program cannot be divorced from an understanding of imperialism, and that only a discussion of imperialism in the broadest possible context with the strictest attention paid to different movements and to factions within the international capitalist class can lead to such understanding...
Such popular misconceptions are strengthened by the mass media's failure to place contemporary events in a larger historical context. While the forms of American expansionism have changed over the past 200 years, and several major shifts in the ideology surrounding U.S. imperialism have occurred, it is possible to trace this history of change systematically...
...dominate any and all bargaining sessions and literally control the agenda for the future. A corollary belief is that the achievement of a (nearly) warless international community dominated by U.S. power would allow this nation's domestic machinery to function within the old imperial now called multi-national context, but without public resistance such as that generated by the inhuman policies used to prosecute the Indochina Wars...
...FACE fixed in a wide smile, Everett Mendelsohn arrives early for his 11 a.m. lectures on "The Social Context of Science." The graceful, slim, veteran activist and professor of the History of Science--only eight days past his 42nd birthday--likes to chat briefly with the regulars who return to the front row seats each lecture, asking them if reserve books are accessible, flicking through their morning papers, and apologizing for missed appointments. "My face is red," he said sheepishly before one lecture last week--four students had waited in vain for him at Lehman Hall for his regular Thursday...
Liberation from any historic context was one of the main tenets of Futurism--this was one reason many of the Italian Futurists turned Fascist later on, according to David R. Ignatius's theory--but it doesn't make for absorbing drama. David Starr Klein as Mayakovsky and David Neill as the man with balloons are particularly effective in minimizing the play's difficulties, Joann Green's direction is effective when there's dialogue going on but understandably weaker during the less than pregnant silences, and Allan Grossman's fine music lifts a couple of speeches into the realm of coherence...