Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson reporters often misquote members from our organizations and extensively edit quotes, take words out of context and selectively pick parts of interviews and statements which misrepresent the speaker. We ask for less editing of quotes and a less combative style of interviewing. Also, non-members of a similar ethnic back-ground are often quoted to represent the whole organizations. The Crimson's series on diversity proved this incompetence...
...musical projects fail to achieve coherence in the course of two hours. For example, in one scene the characters of Paul's novel erupt into dance. While the dance is well choreographed, hilarious and undoubtedly the best scene in the show, it fails to make sense in the context of the play. Rouse seems to want to juxtapose mystery, tragedy and farce. But there is little to connect these elements, and the basic absence of a strong, coherent plot shows up increasingly as the play progresses...
...members of the magazine's executive council said yesterday that the flyer, which also showed a picture of a Black woman performing a striptease for a white audience, was not racist when put in the proper context. "The deans' letter didn't really make it clear that the language used in the poster was offensive when taken out of context," said Senior Council Member Chris G. Vergonis...
...suggesting that you fail to report such attacks nor expecting your reporting to exonerate such ridiculous attacks as professional who lapse into calling rivals "punk faggots." Rather I would encourage your staff to explore the motives behind such garbage charges, the context for these vicious personalized campaigns...
...could anyone, in any context, really think that "Harvard's celebrations of Christian holidays...is as offensive to Jews as is racism to Black"? Racism includes violence against Blacks by mobs and the police, harassment in housing, discrimination in promotion and hiring and a million other things beside which "Harvard's celebration of Christian holiday" is less than trivial...