Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have intimated, the pretentious and self-indulgent product of a jaded literary titan who has nothing better to do than write the Great American Conceit. Roth has asked for it -- he can probably afford to lay himself open to this kind of facile speculation. But for once let the context be forgot, not only because one could make a case for a peculiarly redemptive humility of tone in the novel, but just on general principles. References to Mesopotamian mythology and Joseph Conrad don't detract from the fact that this is a hell of a baseball book...
...investment banks' control of stock, such resolutions never attract 50 per cent of the shareholders' votes -- a fact the churches clearly understand. The ACSR, in objecting to the committee's composition, was objecting to the details of a proposal meant to be considered in a far broader political context. Resolutions such as these are intended to raise issues -- in this case, to pressure Exxon to establish a responsible study group. Any study committee that management would voluntarily establish in response to such pressure would no doubt be more "balanced," in the ACSR's sense, than the group proposed...
...suppose that even pornographic movies must be judged contextually. Unfortunately, their context, if it exists, lies somewhere outside the scope of conventional criticism. What, after all, is good porn? Does it stimulate you? Does it make you (as some puritan souls seem to think) run out of the theatre mad with lust, ready to violate the first female body that comes along? Ironically, if pornographic films had this effect, perhaps one could ascribe some specious artistic quality to them. Good art, as they say, possesses the power to make you ruminate, react, and reach...
...problems. Walking the delicate balance line of intermediary, trying to bring the sides together in some profitable dialogue, I heard, each time, both sides of an incident or an issue. And had to somehow cope with the realization that both sides made sense, both positions were consonant with the context of those who held them, but that those contexts were worlds apart...
...world is that of simple, usual things, torn from everyday context and tossed together flippantly into generalized space. There are letters: big, blocky, physical letters, and simple words mapped out in a landscape, drawn with the qualities of their meaning. "Yes" rolls downhill on wheels, about to strike the barrier of a gigantic "but." Years of prosperity are shown as labeled building stones, arranged in reverse pyramid on top of the single block "1933." A rank of businessmen march with one step across the dotted line separating "Monday" from "Tuesday...