Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems as if the most important thing about Lucien's death is its social context. We shouldn't so much be concerned with judging the rights and wrongs of his actions, but with removing his motivations. It is the social injustice Lucien confronts that must be remembered--and corrected--if we don't wish to have to shoot Lucien again, or, next time around, be shot...
...TRENDS. The latest survey provides a context for interpreting the results of this week's election. Items...
...history through the eyes of the people who experienced it--narrow and distorted as their vision may be--then we will have made a window in time. If we can recreate the context in which these person's decisions, beliefs and feelings were meaningful then we will have made that window a doorway through which we can enter the past and write histories that are faithful to their subjects...
...Because of the changes in the world this generation is trying to develop new styles of being men and women...Co-residential living offers many more contracts with both men and women than does the one-sex dormitory and therefore far more opportunity to consider these issues in the context of real relationships. It offers greater opportunity for emotional growth...
...Modesto, California--would like to see a quick and fair resolution to the struggle for labor representation. One deceptively simple solution is a "free," secret-ballot election. Elections are certainly desirable, but merely calling for them now is not enough. This proposal fails to take into account the context in which any elections would now take place. In widely different cases, General Nguyen van Thieu and Mayor Richard Daley have shown that elections are not the be-all and end-all they are sometimes thought to be, even where formal safeguards for democracy exist. Considering the long history of bought...