Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First time I ever saw the word flash in a musical context was on the back of Beck's first solo album. Truth. Flash has little to do with taste or technique or attack or anything like that. It's the hazy ability to appear with the musically unexpected. It's also a lot to do with ego, which Beck has, in abundance. He once shut down the whole band, onstage, so he could play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," solo. That's flash...
...Your article on unemployment, "Not Enough Jobs" [Oct. 9] takes my words far, far out of context...
...President has been working to achieve an economy that will provide jobs for everyone who wants to work. In the meanwhile, in treating one part of the unemployment problem, we need to concentrate federal manpower programs on training the unskilled. My words, in correct context, referred only to that one aspect of the problem...
...Watergate affair with a tradition of political dirty tricks almost as old as the ballot box itself. Indeed, some nasty pranks have become depressingly commonplace over the years-the stealing of candidates' stationery to issue scurrilous letters or phony press releases, the use of embarrassing out-of-context photos...
...context of Ky's remarks was Saigon's unwillingness to participate in peace talks which were to have begun seven days after the U.S. halted its remaining bombing of North Vietnam on October 31, 1968. Ky's statement indicated that the reason for Saigon's delay in sending a delegation to those negotiations was because of the "plots" of U.S. officials and not the shape of the bargaining table. 'Conciliation with the aggressors who have a smaller and weaker force is not different from a defeat,' Ky stressed...