Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citing these national security matters it is not my intention to place a national security "cover" on Watergate but rather to separate them out from Watergate ?and at the same time to explain the context in which certain actions took place that were misconstrued or misused...
There Goes Rhymin' Simon brings Simon to the brink of self-indulgence; he's attempted a variety of styles and succeeded at them, but left his album with no context, except its lack of context. A large part of his success is due to the fact that Simon's fame has reached a point where he may indulge his creativity. He can command appearances by the Dixie Hummingbirds, move into Muscle Shoals, have his falsetto parts sung...
...Jesse Dixon Singers. "Mother and Child Reunion" became a gospel song; "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" was simply the best I've heard it. In concert, as on record, Paul Simon extends himself musically. There Goes Rhymin' Simon reflects his virtuosity. The album is brilliant individually, but its lack of context is cause for concern...
Nixon may also rationalize Watergate in a broad context of American political skulduggery-of lobbyists' pressures and demagogues' tricks, of funds secretly raised and secretly disbursed...
...hated perceptions which under ordinary circumstances might be avoided." Quarreling with his own paper's critical stance on Watergate, Portland Oregonian Publisher Robert C. Notson painted past antiwar demonstrations as an apocalyptic threat to the country and the President's safety. "This then," Notson wrote, "was the context" for the Watergate bugging...