Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premise of the books is basic: the great family model of authority is defunct. The world has changed, and with it the context of leaders and followers -- even the conception of what it means to lead...
...cold war -- the vanishing of a huge external threat that helped give focus and a context of significance to both leaders and followers -- has left Americans in a state of moral disorientation, as if they had lost a defining purpose...
...female and a member of a youthful age-bracket, cannot help but consider the word "girlish," in the context in which it was used, related to myself. If a person unquestioningly accepts a connection between being a girl and being unable to speak rationally, I cannot help but feel that this person attacks me and my girl-friends...
Martin's hour-long address sought to place The Bell Curve, the controversial book by former Harvard Professor Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles A. Murray '65, in historical context...
...surprisingly, The Crimson also has trouble reporting basic facts correctly. In the news story, the now-famous Hyewon Chong quote was quoted out of context. Furthermore, one of the panelists. Assistant Professor Anne Cheng, was reterred to as "Associate Professor." In her talk, she told a story about an ethnic literature scholar whose proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities was rejected. The Crimson article referred to this as a proposal to the "National Institutes of Health," making Cheng's criticism of this rejection seem inane and incomprehensible. In the editorial about ethnic studies, Chong is referred...