Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presenting these comparisons below it seems imperative that they be expressed in the context of the larger society around the university, where increasing street crime, drug use, family dissolution, political corruption, and general anti-intellectualism have so drastically escalated since the 1950's as to threaten the foundations of both the university and the entire society which nourishes it. A Harvard education may be conceded superior over others in the nation, but still may not deserve objectively high marks unless it is facing these social diseases constructively. On this score I find much room for doubt...
...does not move fast enough in bringing the number of minority-group members and women to an equitable level, and he admits quite freely that he is "not very happy with the numbers" cited in the plan. Yet Leonard continues to staunchly defend the plan and because of the context in which it was developed, he thinks of it as an historic achievement...
...preacher of patience," he warns; "I'm highly impatient myself." But then comes the phrase that puts Leonard's impatience in his role in the Bok administration in context: "On the other hand, I'm also a realist...
Walzer is unwilling to talk about the so-called "special needs of women" except in the context of Harvard. Moreover, while her office functions as initiator and advocate on behalf of women, Walzer feels that many of the problems that women undergraduates bring to her should be handled through existing agencies. "Maybe the student doesn't know that there is an office that's supposed to handle her problem, or maybe the office needs some enlightened encouragement to help her," she explains...
...died down now. We have the right to demand more than pamphlets bound between hard covers. Belfrage's book resembles Kubek's not only in its vituperative writing style, but more importantly, in the questions it chooses to ask and the way it chooses to remain within the intellectual context of the fifties. Was Owen Lattimore the number-one Soviet espionage agent in America? Did Hiss maneuver the Yalta sell-out? Did the denial of a passport to W.E.B. DuBois uphold the principles or security of this nation? No. Granted. But...so what...