Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this context, the sloganistic rhetoric of the underground press can be seen as an attempt to reverse the present media-administered order of values and concepts. Obscenities or words like "America" and "pigs" are used freely, indeed deliberately, as a means of obliterating the false and hypocritical values often given to established institutions...
...this first edition of his book, Watson presented experimental data with an explanation of its context in the on-going research at the time; his personal comments gave the book a relevancy that has outlived its press run. In fact, a year after the first edition was published, one biologist reportedly decided that the book was finally becoming up-to-date. At Harvard last year, this first edition was still recommended reading for half a dozen undergraduate biology, chemistry, and anthropology courses...
...leaders of the human potentials movement should see this movement in a larger social context, and concentrate on the re-establishment of smaller social units and natural groups in society at large. Otherwise the movement becomes just another empty institution void of significance and meaning outside the four walls of the joy seminars, unable to provide satisfying answers to the search for intimacy and friendship by people who have never experienced close human contacts in real life situations with actual common goals. ELSE WEINSTEIN Glendale...
...have picked me. I'm low key. I'm from a small state. I did my work behind the scenes, and it was undramatic work." Still, in his new mood of self-assurance, Muskie finds the prospect of the presidency natural enough. "I think in the context of growth." he says. "I started at the local government level, went on to the legislature, became Governor, Senator, then a candidate for Vice President. Progression tends to build one's confidence that he can rise to the next level of responsibility...
...pathos of his last paintings, like The Angel of Death, 1940, is really a failed sense of foreboding-failed, because his signs could hardly accommodate real fear. The crusty paint on ragged burlap, the blurred and bulbous shapes, can only be made to look tragic within the context of Klee's earlier dexterities...