Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another modernization of the Bible, specifically the early portion of Genesis. Despite the recent appearance of so many productions on the order of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Miller's script seems clever enough-or may be just familiar enough--to win sympathy. In a Biblical context, somehow even the worst puns and the broadest slapstick can be funny. As a topic for comedy, the Bible is like sex: embarrassment or guilt provokes laughter where the mere humor of a joke might not. Needless to say. The Creation of the World and Other Business abounds with puns...
Rosenbloom, the holder of the chair at the Business School, said at a news conference yesterday that social and political pressures in recent years had forced company managements to change their approach in dealing with technology. "Now the social context is important in making a decision rather than just the financial factors," he said...
...novel by the man who is the undisputed living master of Russian literature it is not a masterpiece. But it may look better in context if Solzhenitsyn ever finishes the work that he has planned since his early youth...
...such blatant exploitation is dismaying, and the number of tricks employed prodigious, the real picture of a corrupt evangelist that Marjoeprojects almost duplicates the stereotype made popular by the fictional Elmer Gantry. It is a sad but true comment that the dishonesty illumined already seems logical in the context of evangelical religion...
These reforms are not satisfactory. Although they clear up some of the CRR's worst excesses they fail to deal with the basic issue--the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities the Committee was designed to implement. The Resolution is an ill conceived document which considers political actions out of context and is so vague that it gives its enforcing body virtually absolute discretion in deciding which actions will be punishable...