Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restrictions on the cultural expression of the Quebecois, but to limit the terms of the cultural question to the macro-political arena is to seriously understate what needs to be done. Unfortunately, the particular terms under which Levesque has chosen to do cultural battle are restrictive, and in the context of Canadian federalism, almost meaningless...
...longer talking in the narrow, nationalist terms of the late '60s," the big man, Grantland Johnson, says. "We've attempted to build this movement in a multi-racial manner, because it's not the white man who oppresses us. We must place the minority struggle in a broader economic context. Bakke just happened to be the incident that sparked it." It's hard, trying to channel 20,000 people's anger at an economic abstraction rather than at something concrete like Bakke supporters. But even if the economic analysis produces less immediate gratification than does empassioned rhetoric, it may well...
...dealing with a problem from the context of hopelessness, one cannot help but feel frustrated. This has led us to support positions that mitigate our frustration, but not the hunger problem itself...
...create this context for the cessation of hunger? We must be personally committed. We must realize that hunger can end and we must live with this goal in mind...
...title implies, there are no absolute heroes in this movie; each character has major faults (Butler his harshness, Benji his self-righteousness). By the same token, however, there are no villains. Nelson's attempt to censure "the system" seems unjustifiable in his context, as the individuals who make up that system in the film, ranging from teacher to dealer, are, on the whole, very humane...