Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case you missed the revival of the Weill-Maxwell Anderson Lost in the Stars which passed through town a few weeks ago, September Song gives you a chance at least to hear some of the numbers. Unfortunately, most of the songs in this show depend on their context, but "Train to Johannesburg" and "Cry the Beloved Country" communicate some of the force of the original...
...this context of continued American intransigence, capped by Porter's statement that the representatives of the Vietnamese liberation forces would have to grovel on their knees before him in order to get the talks resumed, that the North Vietnamese offensive unfolded last week. And since the offensive began, the U.S. position has hardened even further. For the first time since 1968, the American command has begun systematic, round-the-clock bombing inside North Vietnam. And Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced late last week that the bombing would not stop until North Vietnam began "serious" negotiations with the United States...
Firing Squad. Why have they done this to themselves? One explanation has been offered in another context: when reform-minded Democrats are told to make up a firing squad, they form a circle. The system was set up with the best of intentions. After the disastrous 1968 Chicago convention, which took place in the streets as much as in the amphitheater, the Democrats decided that more people should be drawn into the nominating process. State party organizations were given a choice: either take the caucuses that select convention 'delegates out of the smoke-filled back rooms and open them...
...spite of occasional errors and misquotations and putting things out of context in some of your interviews. I try each day to read the Crimson. I find this the most important single step that I can take to keep abreast of what is happening at Harvard...
...arpeggios so full of undefined resonances, comic melancholic, and heroic, that you doubt a film could ever create a heady enough mixture of its own. It does, and the brew is not only heady but true, not only true but important. It makes us feel again, in a modern context, what the wicked have always known: that there is no God, and that the men who rule the earth in his stead are those with the biggest compensating pictures of themselves...