Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that. Earlier in the week Bonn decided to cope with its nagging inflation by allowing the mark to float in relation to other currencies. In terms of national interest, the decision was perfectly defensible, for nothing upsets the West German voter so much as monetary instability. In the context of the Common Market, however, the decision was highhanded, for it upset the parity rates among the currencies of the Six (see BUSINESS). But the German action helped to convince Pompidou that the British were needed in the EEC to serve as a counterweight to the Germans. Moreover, Pompidou apparently felt...
...attend an all white segregated school in the South. Moreover, it is ironic that those very same liberals will not fight for SJP's right of free speech at Harvard Now it is we who are being treated as the new niggers. This is what I said in a context quite different from the CRIMSON report...
...East Germany after the war. For the past 15 years Weigel directed the famed Berliner Ensemble, the repertory company founded by Brecht. "What Brecht prescribed," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan in 1961, "his widow embodies: the maxim that there is no such thing as a character ungoverned by a social context...
...Rolling Stones album was released two weeks ago and seemed like a pretty important event at the time. Since then, however, I have been down in Washington making little quasimilitary skirmishes in what is undoubtedly the Pig City capital of the world. In that context, the significance of Sticky Fingers has paled considerably in my mind...
...believed-a painting would have been accepted as grand imagination. But it is there and it is real. But its sense of practical reality is the genius of the photograph. It would have been insufficient except that the viewer is not given an isolated image of an unknown landscape-context always gives the greater meaning, and the most powerful context is provided. Prominent in the photograph, in as great detail as the rocks and sky and shadows, is the railroad curving through, the locomotive portrait-frozen in the foreground. It made everything all right. Made it possible to call...