Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irresponsible claims in an intellectual forum, to assert that blacks, Jews, gays or any group of less-powerful people simply "do not belong," is to join forces with a level of intellectual discourse made possible only by the exercise of unchecked power and unreflective cruelty. Speaking out in this context is a form of survival for anyone of conscience, not just "of color...
Jury expert Abramson also believes that asking jurors to sit silently throughout a trial and not talk about a case is onerous and unreasonable. At the very least, he contends, jurors facing a welter of technicalities thrown at them without a clearly understood context should be allowed to ask questions screened by the judge. But Abramson would go further: "I favor allowing jurors to start talking [among themselves] about the one thing that's overwhelming their lives...
...Nicole in the Bronco. But the defense explains that by saying Fuhrman rubbed the bloody glove around the car. They offer no physical evidence to support their claims, but to the mind of the jurors they may not need to. Their allegations exist in a context of public anger over the L.A.P.D.'S problems with race relations, to say nothing of Fuhrman...
...spring semester, I noticed some quotes from my editorials on the "Out of Context" page of Peninsula magazine. If you've never seen it before, Peninsula is a monthly Harvard student publication that attempts to blend the teachings of Jesus, free market and libertarian ideologies with the racial sensibilities of David Duke. Mainly, it serves as a monument to self-righteous hubris, but when I first saw a copy of Peninsula at my door, I wondered why Dean Epps had allowed trash to be door-dropped...
...School's Harkness Commons, where law school students gathered to watch the verdict on TV, some said they were more interested in understanding the case in the context of the legal system...