Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thousands of pages are published by the University every year giving facts and figures and charts and tables for every detail of Harvard's money machinery. But without some overall context in which to set these details, the available information is understood only by those who work directly with Harvard's money and know the answers anyway...
...analytic tools. It is no accident that the Cambridge-educated economist Joan Robinson aids Mao in his economic theories for the Chinese economy; or that Marxist historian Christopher Hill is Master of Balliol College, Oxford. They have mastered their respective fields--and superbly express their political biases in the context of their respective disciplines. It is imperative for blacks to attempt to do the same if knowledge is to have any effect on the black struggle...
Ervin is not going to stand for that kind of evasion. For him, the Watergate investigation is a matter not just of high politics or powerful personalities but also of the most profound constitutional principles. In a far different context (a criminal case in which Ervin as a state supreme court justice argued to free a convicted man), he stated his first concern. "What may be the ultimate fate of the prisoner is of relatively minor importance in the sum of things," he wrote. "His role on life's stage, like ours, soon ends. But what happens...
...worth knowing, in the context, that I tend to fall in love randomly, helplessly, with no provovation. With Gladys Knight, Cybill Shepard Kodak advertisements, Candy Bergen Life covers, librarians, bank tellers, and one topless dancer. That was the worst. Imagine the trauma of deciding the girl of your dreams was peeling, in front of the hardest core perverts, in a Combat Zone dive. And now, I'm in love with various elements of roughly six women. It's not an easy life...
...because she was and Wheels... well, Wheels because she had nice legs. But to call her Wheels lessens the chauvinism, and surrounds her instead with a sense of mute admiration. Lou Brock has "the good wheels." So'd Bob Hayes. And mute admiration is the whole point. In the context. I'm thinking of the swirling nature of the activity, and simultaneously, its centering down on the individuals at each table, so that each group contributes its individuality to the whole. So no one is quite as socially adaptable as the average barmaid. What the Farmer's Daughter told...