Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecutors have conducted, as Agnew says, a "deliberate campaign" of leaks, it constitutes a serious breach of their duty as officers of the court. In that context, the judge's grant of broad subpoena powers can be seen as giving Agnew the fairest chance of gathering evidence to support his contention...
...fairly earthy in private, as most presidents are in private. And presidents have to be able to blow off steam in private, which they do--and he does. So there's a lot of stuff on these, I'm sure, that listened to in the whole context of that conversation, and of other conversations preceeding it and following it, and other things that were going on, are quite acceptable--but lifted out of context, could be used in all sorts of very grossly misleading ways damaging to him, damaging to a lot of other people, and very damaging...
Yarrow's concert Sunday and his album That's Enough For Me rest on an implicit assumption that an effective 1973 folksinger must cast his visions in a rock context, resurrecting even fifties rock as a kind of new folk music. The length and number of standing ovations Yarrow received Sunday--especially the fervent sing-along he started was a bluesy version of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"--suggests he is right...
King's conclusions are also foreshadowed by the context in which he defines maturation. His variables--especially his stress of career goals, interests and control of emotions and energy--are oriented towards conventional mores. In his analysis, both sports and political activity are viewed as relaxants for tense students. "Team sports can be useful in management of tension through the sharing of strong feelings... and through peer pressure for individual fortitude in the face of physical or emotional pain... These qualities can come, of course, from other kinds of group activity; some students may be finding them today in political...
What saves this garishly sentimental first love story are entertaining exchanges between the. hypochondriac mother and her sarcastic son. Landon displays a slashing wry sense of humor that in another context might have been brilliant...