Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology and a member of the council, said last night there are special problems concerning all the departments limited to honors students. The council feels the issue should be taken up in a general context, rather than by individual departments, he said...
...Communists viewed the Soviet Union as a model socialist country, but the current party has grown up in the context of democratic Italian institutions, Giolitti said...
...ventures beyond the scope of the film when she says, "It's not really the men's fault; we're all victims. The almighty God of this country is the dollar bill." Deitch was not interested in pursuing either that thought or the politics of oppression in any broader context. The film closes with an exhortation to women to keep talking--to work together, educate one another, and overcome their mutual mistrust...
Garry is a prancing, strutting peacock of a man who rarely stops acting--even when he is off the stage. He is the center of much attention and his excesses are obligingly tolerated and forgiven. He is everybody's favorite but in the context of the play it is difficult to figure out why this is so. Admittedly he has a childlike vulnerability that makes him attractive but there is nothing really admirable in his character. He is spoiled and self-centered. There are hints that beneath the pretentious veneer hides a warm and sympathetic man. But these remain only...
...classes at the YWCA were conducted much as the book is put together. Medical information was discussed only within the context of personal experience. "We checked everything the experts said against what we felt," Sanford, now a student at the Divinity School, says. Now that the women's movement has gotten going, maybe that isn't so striking. Back then, though, our method of teaching was really striking...