Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean the burglary and eating of the TKGE was no isolated event. I think we have to see it in the total context of the previous week and a half. Without trying to minimize the importance of this incident, there was a general climate of immorality that was rampant in the Garden up to that point. Adam and I were running around naked and doing a whole bunch of things that would hardly be classified today as family entertainment. When we wanted to sleep, we slept. When we wanted to eat, we ate. When we wanted to...uh...get better...
...analysis flowing from Watergate there has been little attempt to understand the phenomenon as anything more than a series of incidents perpetrated by certain individuals. One can, indeed, view Watergate simply as the excesses of the specific persons involved, or one can seek a deeper explanation within the context of our times and environment that have developed with our complicity...
...with Penthouse, his raunchy, lighthearted superskin magazine for men (TIME, July 30). Viva was supposed to be a bright and sophisticated monthly for women who find Cosmopolitan too coy. It is a logical goal, but the problems begin with the publisher himself. To place the magazine in a cosmic context, Guccione makes the dubious prophecy that "a new epoch of madness and excess awaits us." He protests against the Supreme Court's pornography decision saying the court "sodomizes the Constitution...
Neil L. Rudenstein, dean of the college at Princeton University, in a letter mailed to both Kilson and The Times, said that Kilson's analysis and conclusions suffer from serious inaccuracies and a lack of adequate context in their references to Princeton...
...MOST serious acts attributed to the Nixon administration remain crimes they readily admit--the widespread destruction wrought by U.S. military forces in Indochina. Endowed with unshakable faith in their good intentions, most Americans find it distasteful to use the expressions "war crimes" and "genocide" in an American context. Vietnam is referred to as "a tragedy." Demolition of hospitals, houses and non-combatant lives is termed "regretful." Nixon claimed that the massive bombing of Hanoi last December had him "in agony...