Word: context
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...main question to be addressed in this context is not so much affirmative action in itself, but the broader matter of diversity as it relates to the quality, breadth, and texture of student learning. The primary purpose of diversity in university admissions, moreover, is not the achievement of abstract goals, or an attempt to compensate for patterns of past societal discrimination...
...Admissions decisions are not isolated, atomistic events," Rudenstine says in his report. "They focus on individuals, but each decision is made in the context of others, where the pattern of the whole is also taken into account...
...pages; $24), demonstrates anything, it is that Germany's small but venomous neo-Nazi movement, along with supporters in Austria and the U.S., can tap the same depths of irrationality that possessed Central Europe 60 years ago. Past and present reminders of that madness now reach us with context-blurring frequency. Contemporary television images of skinheads tattooed with swastikas and the firebombed houses of Germany's Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging in the 1930s. Have the unholy dead returned to inhabit new bodies? Hasselbach's zombie-like voice, preserved to creepy effect by American...
...around him; and presently Jurgen Habermas, who sees in unlimited corporate expansion a new colonization of our minds and lifestyles potentially as insidious and oppressive as colonial regimes of old. Any of these theorists could profitably be studied by those seeking to "place" their work in a larger social context...
This difference in context leaves the play as simply a case study, dependent on Genet's flushed and often histrionic writing to convince us that what we see on stage is really what it feels like to be mad. From the beginning, Genet encloses us in the hermetic mental world shared by Solange (Lois Folstein) and Claire (Mary Rutkowski), the sisters who are employed in the house of an unnamed "Madame" (Barbara Matteau). The play opens with what seems to be a maid's insurrection against Madame, as Solange inexplicably drops her servile tone and begins to abuse her mistress...