Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms apply to a changed situation: the boy, after sleeping in his clothes to yield an incredibly poignant composition, tries to steal a chicken and is furiously pursued by farmers, so that rather than returning to a home in the woods he is setting himself outside society. The context of the film's beginning, which found him a being able to live validly (perhaps "happily," perhaps not) without reference to society, and which saw society as just another state of being, has been replaced by a context in which social life is the only life possible, in which there...
...hear large choruses singing Socialist songs; other sections end with shots of Chinese woodcuts in which red children sweep some sort of reactionaries from their homes. Their inspirational tone is made quite poignant by their lack of application to the situation at hand; they have no social or critical context in the film, and are equally distant from Godard's pre-Revolutionary situation...
Unfortunately I was not incisive enough to prevent Mr. Landau-and his mentor, Mr. Chomsky, whom he faithfully copies in this regard-from quoting this phrase so completely out of context so as to make it imply the exact opposite of what I said. The quoted phrase appears in an article entitled "The Bases of Accommodation" and the complete paragraph in which it appears is as follows...
...quotations from Mr. Huntington's article do not "imply" anything other than his observations of what tactics the Americans have successfully pursued in order to achieve their goals in Vietnam. The passages are not quoted out of context...
...panelists, Dr. George C. Roche, had summed up this position in another context during an earlier speech. "It may be that coercive political power can best serve the individual by stepping aside and letting the sun shine through." Ayn Rand's objectives grew out of the libertarian point of view; though nobody at the convention went openly to that extreme, the ultimate result of libertarianism is, logically, anarchism...