Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...context of Hawaiian culture, the U.S. has essentially declared war on the Hawaiian people by using Kahoolawe Island as a target for violence...
...ignorantly directed affection is both pain and the memory of love. At the end William muses: "His father had pushed him into it [the army] but he forgave him for that: we have to forgive our parents if we want our children to forgive us." In a different context, this conclusion could have all the resonance of a greeting-card sentiment. In Sillitoe's novel, it rings with hard-earned wisdom...
...Brennan's opinion carefully underlined the singularity of the Nixon case, attributing the law to "a context unique in the history of the Presidency." Two of the six concurring Justices forcefully reiterated that the law set no precedent for future congressional dealings with departing Presidents...
...other hand, the show treats such major artists as it does include quite inanely. The section dealing with abstract expressionism is feeble and disconnected. If one wanted, for instance, to demonstrate the European context of Jackson Pollock's drip-drawing, one would show the appropriate works by Masson and Ernst, not the empty doodle by Georges Mathieu that hangs next to Pollock's Number 32. The dismal efforts of French artists to turn their Dada heritage into American Pop are much in evidence. But it is one thing to dis inter the unmourned trivialities of people like Martial...
...Shah of Iran retains his benevolent image despite the highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief." But the figures alone do not convey the horror; Baraheni puts them in human terms, in the context of Iran. "Imagine tens of thousands of educated men and women in prison while 75 per cent of the whole nation is illiterate," he writes. "Imagine hundreds of doctors in prison when every 50 villages in the country have only one doctor! Imagine roads awaiting construction while engineers are rotting...