Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Context. Teachers were also bothered about the series' inaccuracies. Historians have pointed out a number of errors, including oversimplifications, quotations taken out of context and exaggerations of the role the Adamses played in certain events. In one episode, John Adams nominates Washington as Commander in Chief, when in fact he was nominated by Maryland's Thomas Johnson. And it was John Jay, not John Adams, who was the main negotiator of the peace treaty with England...
...while graduate students are pleased that Dreben aired their discontent, at least one senior faculty member questions the appropriateness of the dean's comments in the context in which they were made...
...black people, especially in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America on an equal basis. We contend that the history of black people goes back several thousands of years and that even the experience of the black people in the United States should be studied in that context. We resent being regarded as a people without roots whose worthwhile existence and experience do not extend beyond the period of slavery and colonialism, going back only four hundred years...
...PRESIDENT'S MEN is a fastpaced, absorbing film of great technical accuracy, fine performances and a generally ethical approach to journalism and politics. Watching it more or less out of any larger context, it is equally solid as entertainment, information and morality. The only questions left that a viewer can think about afterwards are what kind of film All The President's Men set out to be and how far such a treatment does justice to the events being portrayed...
...much by moral vigor, how much by pure thrill of the chase. Do they even like each other? They never discuss the wider significance of the case or their handling of it, only tactics and never strategy. Deep Throat provides some of the comments that put events in context, but the film really tells us little about whether or not Woodward and Bernstein had to be extraordinary men to do what they did, or simply extraordinary reporters...