Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this context, in this space, it made mesqueamish In this context I thought the piece wasinappropriate. And as director of the program, Ihave the right to make that decision," she said...
...forward on his crutches and thanked Richard Nixon for everything including the Christmas bombing that had rained all around the "Hanoi Hilton" while he was a guest there), but McCain's was not a feel-good denouement. A rotten script. One of the lessons of Vietnam was that political context counts--that it may, in fact, be everything. Boys who went off to Vietnam with John Wayne movies screening in their minds returned to Deer Hunter America, to be spat upon and cursed themselves...
...away all the encrusted sanctimony from We Shall Overcome, rediscovering the splendor of its pride, and find a perfect ecumenical grace in Danny Boy. "Initially I was a little apprehensive about the format," Jones admits. "We were unsure as to how people would accept spirituals played in the same context as bebop or modern jazz." Playing off each other, against and around each other, flirting with the melody and firing the spirit, he and Haden prove that it's not the context that counts as much as the soul...
While political experts have been predicting a profound political realignment to replace the New Deal consensus that lasted two generations, what exists today is closer to a dealignment, with shifting allegiances and only loose party identification. It is in that context that a Powell candidacy could be most powerful...
...series has some appealing moments, including scenes of poetry workshops that capture the fervent ingenuousness of young people who, in discovering poetry, feel they have found a new continent. But Moyers makes virtually no attempt to place the poet in a larger social context--to view poetry as a profession (or, perhaps more to the point, to analyze what it means that ours is a culture where it's all but impossible to be a professional poet). Ezra Pound once pointed out that history without economics is bunk. To which one might add that poetry without economics--without some sense...