Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BROWN UNIVERSITY (6,700 students; Providence, R.I.). Now president of Minnesota's Carleton College, Howard Swearer, 44, is changing posts because "I decided I needed a change of context, a new set of problems and a new set of challenges. Brown offers all of those." Indeed, it does. The 213-year-old school has suffered through a variety of ailments the past few years-a deficit of $10.6 million since 1970, student strikes, minority student protests. His principal goal, says Swearer, is "to encourage the various constituencies to work together to determine what the institution's priorities...
...incipient nervous breakdown. Yet he realizes that the old arguments will no longer work- and that the new ones are limp and equivocating. "If this were 1935," he muses, "and Sheila were my father's younger sister, the whole discussion would have been conducted in the context of sin. I can talk about it only in the context of illness...
...started running through the speech before a camera connected to a video-tape recorder and played back the tape so that he could watch his own performance. His coaches managed to minimize some of his idiosyncrasies-stumbling over words, dropping his voice to a melodramatic hush inappropriate to the context, exaggerating rhetorical flourishes in a way that made them seem artificial...
Kirchner, conducting the piece, largely succeeded in drawing out important lines and contrasting dynamics; his diminuendo in the final cadence, though, was inexplicable and seemed out of context. But all in all, a successful conclusion to a productive season of good music...
Perhaps the greatest difference between the two administrations is their view of Australia in world context. There is ample evidence that Fraser may be a throw back to old times, when Australian prime ministers were willing to be dominated first by Britain and then by the United States. A great believer in America's original goals in Vietnam, Fraser will be a close friend of any rigid Republican administration. (He is so pro-American that anti-mainstream columnist Alexander Cockburn claimed last year that Fraser arrived in power through a CIA-sponsored coup...