Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story about contemporary neuroses -- as displayed by four Parisians, two males and two females unhappy in interesting ways -- Kundera creates a free-form fictional context in which everything, including an imaginary conversation between Goethe and Ernest Hemingway, can be claimed to matter. The Czech author indulges his obsessive itch to tell all without ever turning out a dull or obfuscatory page...
...there were forced to define and politicize our "sexuality" and our "ethnicity" because of a social context that is profoundly hostile to both. It was all the more telling then that the journalist should have incorrectly identified me as Laotian. My family is from Goa (an Indian province that was once a Portuguese colony...
Harvard's production, under the direction of Gina Fried-Miller, wisely sustains the light and comic aspects of the story and places it in a traditional context--1840's Great Britain. Conductor Sarah Hicks sets the mood with Gilbert and Sullivan's time-honored "God Save The Queen...
Rosario said that questions of sexual orientation are important to consider within the context of broader issues of discrimination...
...more I think about the question, the more hardened is my view that Europe is dashing too fast toward political union. With the Soviet Union's implosion, the EC faces no external threat that can mute the expression of its intense national rivalries and important power asymmetries. In this context, real, lasting unification is impossible...