Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Wallace has become his own code word; his people know where he stands, and his country style permits infinite shadings of nuance and allusion. Today he could never give his "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" speech of 1962. "That inaugural speech was given in the context of the times. The people of the South have adjusted to the law." His new rhetoric even permits of praise for his black opponent, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm: "I like people who stick to their guns, even if I don't agree with them...
Atkins, a member of Governor Sargent's cabinet as Secretary of Communities and Development, said yesterday that. "The University exists in a context, not a vacuum. It can no more ignore its total context than a German soldier 30 years ago could ignore the context...
THIS fight for Collin's freedom can only be understood within the context of the amnesty issue...
...team and Harvard. Yet the majority of the team, including some of his stars, at least occasionally smoke dope and a number are into or have been into considerably heavier trips. The upperclassmen report that Benn Merritt and Harold Miroff were beginning to grasp something of the context of drug use here and finding it less horrifying than they had feared. Don Gambril and Skip Kenney have a longer way to go. Kenney was talking to Rich Baughman after practice one day. Baughman having complained about being sore. Kenney began "If you have trouble with your joints..." at which point...
...find it difficult to keep writing in a cultural context where--as you said once--"homegrown cabbages" like Mailer and Jones are "mistaken for roses"? Do you still stand by that sentence, and is there any tradition you do feel a part...