Word: context
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...suburbs have been particularly hard on women with young children. In the typical hunter-gatherer village, mothers can reconcile a homelife with a work life fairly gracefully, and in a richly social context. When they gather food, their children stay either with them or with aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins or lifelong friends. When they're back at the village, child care is a mostly public task--extensively social, even communal. The anthropologist Marjorie Shostak wrote of life in an African hunter-gatherer village, "The isolated mother burdened with bored small children is not a scene that has parallels in !Kung...
...first phrases, following the famous horn solo, did not contain the emphasis usually accorded to them; in the context of historical performances, they appeared routine. But momentousness was, in general, not his goal. The defining trait of Ax's playing on Saturday was a striking immediacy. Rather than using time to create intense emotional drama, as Sviatoslav Richter did in his landmark 1960 performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorg, Ax manifested an incessant urge to build in an efficient and almost austere manner...
...resumption of "low-yield" nuclear testing. After a three-year hiatus in U.S. testing, this measure disrupts the current pro-disarmament climate and comes as a major diplomatic eyesore in the context of the upcoming Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. As we well know, when France announced--and then stood by--its obtuse decision to conduct eight nuclear tests off Murora Atoll, it placed itself in the company of Iran (which has been pursuing what some have conjectured to be an aggressive nuclear development program with French assistance) and China (with continues to conduct tests despite outrage among its Asian neighbors...
...context of the isolationism espoused by proponents of "Contract for America," the Senate bill reiterates the Gingrichian intention to withdraw the U.S. from the international stage. The Contract's single foreign policy goal has been--as Newt Gingerich euphemistically puts it--"to eviscerate the American role in collective security." Put more plainly, it call for the categorical removal of the U.S. from continuous participation in international diplomacy, without building an effective multilateral security architecture in its wake...
Newspapers have the space to place any situation, particularly this one, in context. Print journalists are now allowed to reason away diplomatic ineptitude as a consequence of this conflict's complexity. They explain who holds what territory and delve into the history books to note who has held that territory before. The main purpose of a newspaper, after all, is to rationalize even the most outrageous of events, fit them neatly into columns and write a first draft of that puzzle called history...