Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoppard's plays are situation comedies. He's always managed, in the past, to set things up at the beginning in an immediately interesting and inherently funny way--taking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern out of their Hamlet context and making an existential comedy out of their dislocation; writing the ultimate parody of a murder mystery play and having his onstage critics sucked into the action in The Real Inspector Hound; creating a Professor of Moral Philosophy who tries to disprove Zeno's paradoxes of motion with a real hare and a real tortoise in Jumpers. Up till now, formulas like these...
Moreover, there was an unsettlingly disingenuous quality to Ford's words. Was the intent of the Chilean operation really to preserve freedom of the press and opposition political parties, as he insisted, or simply to undermine Allende? In this context, it is worth noting that after the coup, the U.S. did not object when the new military regime banned all political parties and shut down all opposition publications...
...historical context, the statement might seem frank and even commendable in its adherence to international co-operation. But in fact, the OAS is not a confederation of equal states, each of them respecting collective decisions, as it would have to be for Ford's statement to make sense. Today, and even more so when it voted to expel Cuba, the OAS is dominated by the United States--the richest American country, the one whose corporations dominate large sectors of the others' economies. And this was particularly relevant in the OAS's expulsion of Cuba, a decision taken at the insistent...
...page report is full of historical context and even literary allusions--Tolstoy, Ford Madox Ford, Santayana and James Thurber all work their way into its pages--but its real meat remains the results of the questionnaires, which have been floating around the administration for several months...
...that the instructor in Phil 8 had planned for a small group of freshmen considering philosophy as a concentration and more than several philosophy concentrators thoroughly acquainted with the course material and method. That's just false, and it seems silly to impute intentions to others in such a context without querying them regarding those intentions. In fact, I expected no concentrators to take the course and I intended the course for students who had had no previous acquaintance with philosophy...