Word: context
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Minister James Callaghan. Labor's former Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart went so far as to say that "there can be no solution of this problem except in the context of a united Ireland." The Conservative government, however, is in no mood to tinker with the existing setup. Ulster's Unionists, after all, have provided the Tories with at least nine or ten seats in the British Parliament (out of twelve for Northern Ireland) ever since 1921, and the Tories do not want to antagonize them...
...conclusion. "We chose peace," Maguire told friends. He had agreed to give up his battle to stay at the school in return for "a just settlement" for the remaining year of his contract and a decree of laicization that would permit him to "continue working in the Catholic context." Early this month, from the Papal Secretary of State, came the news that the decree had been granted. Then, in a private, traditional ceremony in a Maryland church, Maguire's brother Joseph, a U.S. Navy chaplain, married the couple. Writing to friends who had attended their "non-marriage," the newlyweds...
...they preached. The use of the commonplace as image did not mean that it would suffice merely because it was an image and commonplace. Eliot's evening is "spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table"-the image is clinical and deflative, but its context is not. Nor is it just an observation of central-city decay when Eliot writes: "The worlds revolve like ancient women/ Gathering fuel in vacant lots...
That CBS moved some quotes cannot be disputed, but Stanton argued that this is a common journalistic tool employed to gain clarity and conciseness. Critics have a better argument about the quotation that was taken out of context. Here, Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Z. Henkin was shown replying to one CBS question with a statement that was partly from an answer to an earlier inquiry. There is disagreement about whether this constitutes deceit or sloppy editing...
...Donleavy writes sad and lonely books. From The Ginger Man to The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, his fictional worlds seem to spin through an otherwise lifeless universe. They are closed worlds, their boundaries no more distant than the most prominent erectile tissue. Alone, without context or meaning, the flesh...