Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach to the Sizemores only fails when Vecsey goes into the house and transcribers domestic babbling, the "universals" of home life. Or when he refers to people we already know as the "sensitive" so-and-so-or the "intense" Jess Calkins--as though the way people shine through their context isn't enough and we need to see their transcendent virtues before we can understand them...
...FAULTING Vecsey may be a crummy trick, because there is so much here--the people and the context, even if often separated, and in fascinating detail. And maybe the needless universalizing of a local way of life happens because the writer is genuinely moved by people managing to stay human in such dehumanizing circumstances. The first day that Dan Sizemore drives Vecsey to the mine shaft where hundreds work, the reporter is amazed by the roads. Driving through Appalachia plays hell on a car, anyway--mud and garbage all over, trucks barreling around tortuous curves without guard rails, heaved...
...brilliant picture for different reasons, many of which, given the sensibility of Bernado Bertolucci, were political. It is a sheltering, can't talk-for-least-fifteen minutes-afterwards film because you can't help but identify with the characters frustration at not being able to transcend their context. On the one hand people in this society learn that they have to find roots and grow out of them; on another level they are taught that abstracts like "love" or "pleasure" are supposed to be free of a setting--divorced from the social environment, a haven. So a romantic mixing with...
...Ullmann, a Crimson editor, tutors reading at Massachusetts Correctional Institute--Bridgewater, in conjunction with Education T-317, a course about reading disabilities in the context of the prisons system. Jeanne S. Chall, professor of Education and Jeffrey Schnitzer teach the course...
Unlike Nevins and Catton, Foote devotes little space to the political context of the war-the angry riptides of the 1850s, the drift into disaster. His attention is focused on the righting itself -fortifications, tactics, the strange chemistries of leadership, the workings in the generals' minds. Among other things, Foote moves armies and great quantities of military information with a lively efficiency. This volume covers the final year of the war, from the campaigns in western Louisiana and Arkansas to the terrible endgame in the East, with Grant clamping down on Petersburg and Richmond and Sherman burning...