Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would try such a stunt? Better yet, who would respond? The campus Left was almost as controversial; these days, Perspective sounds, well, sensible, frightening as it is to contemplate. The campus press was once split into armed camps, enragedly quoting each other out of context, treasuring each "[sic]" like a captured enemy standard. People weren't a bunch of Voltairetrained parrots, who dutifully preface every rebuttal with a formulaic declaration of how earnestly they support the right of their opponents to speak, regardless of the clap-trap spoken. And today? The name "Al Gore" says...
...Republican candidate denied ever taking illegal drugs, Bush continued to hold to his line: "I've made mistakes in the past, and I've learned from my mistakes." Period. It was time, he said, for someone to put an end to the politics of personal destruction, and in the context of the past year, when America completed its excruciating graduate seminar in truth, character and privacy, he had history and public sentiment on his side. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 84% of those surveyed didn't think youthful cocaine use should disqualify him from being President...
...Godfather. Now he's almost beamish as a wary fixer. He's still funny, but his new characterization, like the success of The Sopranos and Analyze This, reminds us how quickly we have converted palpable menace to pure ethnic comedy. Is this progress? Not really. But in the context of Mickey Blue Eyes it's easy to fuhgeddaboutit...
...Hopefully this will be a passing annoyance," said Donald L. Gibbons, director of public affairs for Harvard Medical School. "They have made up their mind and don't care to listen to what we are doing. They routinely use information that is out of date and taken out of context...
...recent expansion of experimental animal cloning is just one example in the intellectual property context where animal law issues have arisen," Ray added...