Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anyone finding surcease of sorrow within the context of Mr. Nixon's news conference is one who, in my opinion, desires only to feel better and be calmed, preferring to ignore Nixon's clever political sem-anticisms by which he avoids any clear answers to questions addressed...
...family context the phone taps were understandable, the question remains: Were they legal? While refusing to confirm or deny the story that the taps had taken place at all, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren did say: "I am certain, after checking, that any monitoring of the President's immediate family by the Secret Service would have related to the protective function performed by the Secret Service." The Secret Service promptly agreed that it was authorized, if need be, to listen in on the conversations of Nixon's wife and two daughters, but noted that the President...
They did not "belong" in New York, with the splashy gesture and the stuffed angora goat; and except for the work of one or two painters like Kelly's friend Jack Youngerman, there is not much context for them even today. Since then, orthodoxies have spawned and died in shoals; but though Kelly's work anticipated by years many of their salient features (the minimal look, the use of chance in design, the shaped canvas, the horizontal-stripe picture), he has never been part of a "movement." At 50, painting and sculpting on his Hudson Valley farm, Kelly...
...Cloud's dialectic misses an essential irony. It wasn't so much that Hamilton wanted to cut off Jefferson's "people" from participation as that Hamilton had a pessimistic estimate of the people's ability to distinguish between good and evil within the context of a rapidly developing industrial society. Hamilton's disciplined aristocracy should at least have ruled with a sense of tradition, proportion and decorum...
Others agree that conservationist demands often seem unreasonable in an Alaskan context. "As long as they stuck to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was a very worthwhile organization," says Chuck Evans, vice president of the First National Bank of Anchorage. "But when they start attacking progress and profit, they're out of their realm." One bumper sticker puts it more crudely: "Let the bastards freeze in the dark...