Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said I wasn't going to speculate on subjunctive clauses: 'What would happen if," he says. It's a familiar McCarthy rejoinder, usually reserved for Face the Nation panelists with their multi-level loaded questions. In that context, it's an effective evasion. But is it really appropriate when courting a small student audience? Would he have been that perfunctory in 1968? Is he getting sloppier the second time around...
...context of its historically rigid framework, Thuy's deletion of "peace, independence and neutrality" represented a significant variation from Hanoi's official policy. Thuy communicated a message which, like others delivered by the North Vietnamese in August, 1969, Nixon and his advisors misunderstood. Whether the misunderstanding was truly misunderstanding is still not clear...
...that The Murmur of the Heart is the kind of comedy that permits easy nonsequiturs, and it isn't that the advent of Laurent's girl-friend is preferable for everyone concerned to Laurent's incestuous leanings toward his mother. That laughter is by no means inevitable within the context of the film, but Malle's real point is the film's peculiar anti-Romantic heresy. Subtly suggesting the possibility of all kinds of psychological traps for its intelligent and very sensitive adolescent hero (including homosexuality, transvestism, a penchant for cruelty, and of course a permanent sexual attachment...
...recommendations presented below are designed to make undergraduate education at Harvard and Radcliffe more responsive to what we perceive to be the needs, goals, and feelings of students in 1970. We have not tried to offer a detailed philosophy of education which could provide a context and justification for our proposals. Instead, we have adopted as guiding principles the concepts of flexibility and experimentation and have grounded our suggestions in the unique nature of the system of educational resources that is Harvard University...
...sorry to read Mr. Reardon's statement in the October 20 Crimson about changing enrollment and only hope that in this case he was quoted out of context. The essence of President Bok's policy is to increase the total undergraduate enrollment while improving the ratio between men and women. The implication in Reardon's statement that an increase in the number of undergraduate women will diminish the number of "interesting people and events at Harvard" is. I feel, most unfortunate. Adele Simmons '63 Dean, Jackson College for Women