Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other qualities might be regarded as important when evaluating the disadvantaged minority student in the context of his or her environment. To be unequivocably rigorous, admissions criteria must be sensitive to the forums of expression available to disadvantaged applicants. A sense of injustice, a constructive attitude toward his or her environment, or the ability to adapt to ambiguous cultural situations might be considered important in taking stock of the minority applicant--as well as developing accurate means of academic evaluation. Even-handed admissions criteria would apply these criteria across the boards and stiffen up the admissions process for the majority...
...Malcolm was first and foremost a teacher. At the end of his life he was talking about human rights, placing the situation of black Americans in the context of the world," Butler added...
Susan Coffin, a third-year student at the school, fits Swain's description. She says that attending a non-Catholic school "puts your own tradition in context. Since I've been at Harvard, I've become very aware that I'm very Catholic. When you grow up in a tradition, you're so submerged in doctrine you often can't articulate...
...veins are not real aged flesh is the figure's immobility. Astutely, Hanson generally reinforces the illusion by preventing the figure's eyes from meeting one's own-nothing gives the game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions than painting can. The great period for waxworks was the 17th to 18th century, when the favorite court artist of the next-to-last Medici, Cosimo III, was a Sicilian named Gaetano Zumbo, whose fiendishly detailed wax tableaux of plague-rotted bodies...
Buchanan and Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, submitted a proposal for the grant in November 1977 because "we wanted to strengthen the program and look at its goals and purposes in the larger context of the Divinity School," Buchanan said...