Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State of Israel--and in front of the entire world--and as a Jew, as an Israeli, as a man and as a human being, I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer...This murderer came out of a small and marginal political context. He grew in a swamp whose murderous sources are found here, and across the sea; they are foreign to Judaism...To him and to those like him we say: You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people...
...most branches of civilization and scholarship. But he had not singled out Jews for special vilification until his Savior's Day speech that year, when he tried to intimidate Jackson's harassers: "If you harm this brother, it'll be the last one you ever harm." Heard out of context, the speech seemed to be an unprovoked threat. Once he was interpreted as anti- Semitic, Farrakhan reacted with invective that removed any doubt, labeling Judaism "a gutter religion," Israel "an outlaw state" and Hitler "a very great man" ("wickedly great," he later explained...
...public. Some who might give black views on our separate and unequal assimilation in America and our unequal positions today with regard to opportunity, respect and power are quiet. Many believe that in such a delicate public discussion it is dangerous to risk having words taken out of context, ideas abbreviated into unrecognizable and harmful sound bites. They are fearful that to take up the issue at all is to run the risk of being branded an anti-Semite and a pariah. If the issue is used simply to identify enemies, few will step forward...
...satisfied in the context of the situation," Barone says. "It's been an excellent opportunity...
...versus a modern neanderthal. As the film progresses, Blanche deals lines like, "After all, a women's charm is fifty-percent illusion," "Sometimes there's God so quickly," and the line which sums up the film, "Death, the opposite is desire," Of course, all these lines are out of context to the plot structure, but they convey the sense of honesty that reveals itself as the film progresses...