Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BUSCH REISINGER. Barbara Rose, art critic, "The Art Object and Its Context," March...
This underlying system of attitudes is more manifestly at work in the Twin Oaks community than in Walden Two, because the former lacks much of the scientistic veneer which cloaks these attitudes in Skinner's work. Behaviorism is, in this context, a vehicle by which Skinner advances the prejudices of an age in the imposing guise of "objective understanding...
Harvard takes the opposite position. It maintains that the problems of graduate students must be seen in the context of a financial crisis which is besetting the entire University, and which was recently exacerbated by the Nixon fund cutbacks. Last year, the Administration says, it channeled all $55 million of net investment income to the various Faculties. (The Union's $60 million figure does not account for various amortization and investment service charges, it says...
...Eugene Smith, of the World Council of Churches, finds a considerable religious ferment in Europe, although "it just doesn't take the same form that it does in America. The deepest grappling with faith," he says, "takes place in the secular context-the theater, literature and film. Secularism has gone much further in Europe than it has in America." At the same time, he notes a surprising degree of "tribalism" in the minds of many Europeans. When the World Council allocated $500,000 in 1970 to support African liberation movements, for example, it received virulent criticism. "The European churches...
...might seem peevish to object to a production which gives women the spotlight. But in order to give the suffragettes full credit in the historical context, it must be made more clear that their opponents had as much determination as they did--and more power. We should not rejoice merely at the sight of the oppressed besting the oppressors: for the full impact of the struggle for women's rights to hit home, we must understand that the determination which led the women to triumph sprang not simply from their frustration and anger, but from the faith that their position...