Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when one of them comes to town, she will arrange, often with great difficulty, to go and hear her speak. She will make the complicated arrangements for the sitter to come and cover the home front for her and "liberate" her for a few hours. (This is the context in which that word is mainly used in her life...
...which were considered signs of "accomplishment," like a precarious tinkling on the pianoforte. Poorer girls, on the other hand, could make craft objects like pots or quilts. But such craftwork was also by reigning definition not high art. Since women's talent had been deprived of a social context in which it could make art, there was no problem in branding it as minor by nature...
...newsreels, each about 15 minutes long, will concentrate on local events in the context of national news. A pilot film on the subject of day care is now being shot at day-care centers and elsewhere in Cambridge. The pilot also includes interviews on the day care issue with Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D.N.Y.). Presidential candidate, and Florence Kennedy, a leader in the woman's movement...
...diplomacy, context means a lot, even when stating the obvious. On the face of it, the U.S. got nothing very obvious in return. On all the hard questions, the gaps loomed as wide as ever. There seemed no promise of any aid in settling the Viet Nam War. (Not that there had been much expectation for such help; moreover, if it were to occur, it would scarcely be mentioned in the communiqué.) There was no call for an Asian peace conference, as some had hoped. There appeared no agreement on Japan's expanding role as an Asian power...
Commoner said that the public is now more aware of the crisis, but that it must now consider the problem in terms of the "total social context" in order to effectively combat...