Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American analysts acknowledged this political effect of their writing, but to many of their critics. It was its most important aspect. For the politics underlying questions of Vietnamese economic development included more even than questions about who shouk, manage development and profit from it. The human, political context AID economists could all but ignore also included the struggle over these questions that was killing people and making them homeless, the struggle in which the government AID belonged to was playing an increasingly dominant part...
Woodside was aware that new academic subjects face special prejudices, especially when they are closely related to controversial current events. He tried to tread a thin line between academic respectability and ideological honesty by going beyond the immediate events of the war to their context in Vietnamese culture...
...tried to make it an introduction to a specific Asian civilization," he says. "I tried not to duck any of the issues raised by the war, but I wanted the students to appreciate these issues in the context of Vietnamese civilization and Vietnamese culture, the way the Vietnamese themselves appreciate these issues...
Woodside divided the course into three sections: pre-colonial Vietnam, the French colonial period, and then, the war. He found that his students, most of whom were drawn to the course out of antiwar sentiments, were receptive to his efforts to teach the war's cultural context. "My only regret is that so little of Vietnamese culture has been translated into English," Woodside says. "That makes it very hard to get the Vietnamese experience across...
Continued Dispute. Almost inevitably, the debacle in Southeast Asia was seen in the context of other recent U.S. foreign policy setbacks: the breakdown of Kissinger's step-by-step Middle East diplomacy, Portugal's slide toward leftist rule and the continued dispute between NATO allies Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. The fear was not that Viet Nam had fatally sapped America's physical strength or irretrievably tarnished its moral authority but that the bitter experience of recent events might somehow have traumatized America's will. A front-page editorial in the Brit ish weekly Manchester Guardian...