Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while watching Look Back in Anger, his audience was aroused precisely because of the social context-and the moral values that went with it-which "hero" Jimmy Porter's nigh-anarchistic statements reviled. And part of the joy that young Britons felt in experiencing the play-and glorified by Kenneth Tynan in his influential reviews-came from Osborne-Porter's own delight in consciously attacking the symbols of decency and stability which had been lulling the progeny of the Welfare State into complacent acceptance and lethargy, where life was guaranteed, but spirit was not. In Osborne's play, Porter...
Both moves are disastrous. The context is so implausible that one cannot believe in the honesty of the theatrical experience. We are shown a stiff-upper-lip Colonel firmly set in the aristocratic European military tradition-and are asked to accept him as part of upper-class New York social circles. We are asked to believe in a young debtype with scruples about sex and religion. And, after one of the greatest tie-loosening decades in American history, we must also accept her guilt over marrying the man she loves against her mother's wishes...
...political content and intention of the students' acts were dismissed as "irrelevant." The context in which the CRR judged was not that of a modern university in its relations to the real world but rather of an idealized "academic community" founded upon archaic illusions and thus placed in unreal isolation...
...almost complete silence on the repression of such groups as the Panthers and the Young Lords; and the narrow trade-union economist in which it conceived the old idea of worker-student alliance. The proposal did not assail the worker-student alliance concept, but rather modified it in the context of the student movement. It "must be expanded to include and stress the issues of imperialism and racism as they exist unrelated i. e. [unrelated directly] to the conditions of work," the proposal stated...
...construction worker who is rushed into the emergency ward after an accident. His heart has stopped and the medical teams try bravely to save his life, but fail. Following a dramatic account of the medical effort, Crichton offers a heavy dose of "what this all means" in the context of a changing hospital system. "What this all means" unfortunately has little to do with modern health care and has even less that is not so obvious as to be trivial...