Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIRE IN THE LAKE by Frances Fitz-Gerald. Vietnamese life seen in a historical context that makes the war seem more hopeless and foolish than ever...
...ball game started, Harvard threatened to make a runaway out of the context. Fast breaking at ease, and outrunning and outitustling the sluggish Crusaders, the Crimson jumped out to a commanding 12-point-lead which they held for most of the half...
...must object to the article published about me in last Friday's Crimson on the following grounds: (1) Comments were attributed to me in a distorted way completely out of the context of the factual description of my case. When presented in this manner, I must disavow them entirely because they are a distortion of the truth. (2) The article made no reference to the facts of the case which can be summarized as follows: My charges are that Tufts University has violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as amended, by firing me discriminatorily after having condoned...
...former graduate student at Harvard may I say that I am appalled at the yellow journalism involved in the story about me as printed in the December 8 issue of The Crimson. It is a cheap appeal to sensationalism which is completely untrue in spirit because it lacks context and adherence to fact...
...into one of the best thumbnail biographies since Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. To Vidal, F.D.R.'s widow is the finest example of the Christian Puritan aristocrat, dedicated to improving the lives of the masses. In recalling her funeral, he concludes with a passage that out of context seems embarrassingly sentimental but actually reveals a great deal about this "tremendous hater and tiresome nag": "As the box containing her went past me, I thought, well, that's that. We're really...