Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are a lot of lines that sound like poetry in Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, but it's hard to identify them for sure because they don't have much of a context. "All these people here are mere bells on the duncecap of God," remarks one character (the parts are pretty much interchangeable, as near as I could tell, except for the impressive individualization the Cambridge Ensemble occasionally imposes on the writing). The others, as they often do, chime in with repetitions of important questions which no one ever attempts to answer. There's been no previous mention...
...Cambridge population, on the other hand, is dominated by working-class ethnic communities. The privileges of Harvard students--a minority of whom are working-class ethnics--makes them an obvious target of community hostility. This attitude is hardened by Harvard's expansion tendencies, which, in the context of the limited space available in Cambridge, leads to continual clash with surrounding communities. Students are caught in the middle of this struggle. Although they don't make the decisions themselves, they are held responsible by victimized residents. When Harvard forces people out of their neighborhoods, the students are often saddled with...
...time great coaches included here are Pop Warner, Hurry-Up Yost, Alonzo Stagg, Knute Rockne, and Woody Hayes, to name but a few. Here, too, are the players--men like Jim Thorpe, George Gipp, Red Grange, Tom Harmon, and Johnny Lujack. Kaye places the story in the context of its times, finding both heroes and victims, but concentrating always on how the masterminds of strategy fared on Saturday afternoon in the dramatic conditions of actual play. The text is illustrated throughout by an outstanding collection of photographs, some very rare...
...Jews go (and, in an ancillary way, anybody else) coming from Senator Henry Jackson and many of his Zionist and non-Zionist supporters. Since Hiroshima, I have believed that we must look, not at only one issue at one time or in isolation: we must see situations in context, above all, the context of the existence of nuclear weapons. Lurking always in the background is the possibility of nuclear war and we must face this before all else. Eventually, nations may learn to behave less nationalistically and destructively, but before that, the world must survive mass destruction. David Riesman...
...both societies, ideological dilemmas have accompanied the structural earthquakes. Traditional Vietnam enshrined the harmonious order of the local, autonomous village placed snugly in the context of the ritualistic Confucian state. The traditional Vietnamese lived in a meticulously ordered moral universe, conscious of their rights and obligations regarding family, village and the Confucian court...