Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the historical context, it may seem nigh impossible to overstate the repressive prejudices of Johnson's time. However, that is precisely what Sackler has done. Most of Johnson's personality has been removed from the playwright's Jack Jefferson, making him more defenseless and unblemished than Johnson's staunchest supporters ever claimed. Sackler's character has none of Johnson's sensual excesses (and only one all-suffering white wife, drearily enacted by Jane Alexander). The ironic sense of his own destiny which allowed Johnson to cheat and compromise his way to personal security is switched to Jefferson's stereotyped...
...concerning these arrangements was voiced neither to me nor to my management in the weeks preceding the concert. Second, the most inflammatory quotation appearing in your article, our manager's statement: "We would rather sing alone than sing with the Radcliffe Choral Society," must not be taken out of context. It is to be applied to the football concert only and is nothing more than a translation of the idea that the Harvard Glee Club should appear at least once during the year as the Harvard Glee Club within the Harvard community...
First, it requires less writing or intellectual discipline, less relevance to the world we inhabit-though most films both praised and panned deal in a real historical context-and more regurgatative descriptions of the nuances of artifice...
...context of our campaign is the Vietnam war," Charles Fagar, a student at Harvard Divinity School and NDAG press spokesman, said. "We think the replacement of an instrument of death like the draft board with an alternative, life-affirming project like VSC is an occasion for all of us to celebrate...
Round up Wolfe's previous subjects if you will, and you find they are all either outlaws or outcasts. Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Mick Jagger, Cassius Clay, Junior Johnson, Carol Doda, Natalie Wood, Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady- even, within such a context, Hugh Hefner. Certainly all worthy of Who's Who, but hardly New York's Four Hundred. That most of the personalities on Wolfe's little list are also celebrities is a testament to the sheer force of their outlandishness. They've forced fame to conform to their standards: their success the result of their...