Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even more prejudicial and manipulative for Abrams to base his editorial comments on incomplete quotes, as well as on quotes taken out of context, by BSA leaders. Personal comments made by Art Hall '93 and Nelson Boyce '92, and other particular members of the Board and organization, are not necessarily the views of the entire organization/community, nor do they express the sentiments of a complete agreement with the views of Dr. Fardan or that her invitation represents complete ideological and historical agreement by all BSA members...
...Abrams had been truthful to himself and the Harvard community in using the statements made by Art Hall, Nelson Boyce and Dr. Fardan in the context in which they were meant in the first place, he would have realized that "[o]ur purpose behind the series is to celebrate Blackness, Black culture, people and history. Basically what she has done is to educate us and to tell us a philosophy of Black history...
...access to great experts on a moment's notice," Pointer says. "The context mobilized a lot of extremely good people. I don't think the government could get that access...
...want to bring back tradition and exercise our right to have freedom and self-determination within that context," Borowitz said...
...whether the period involved is the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists that embroiled the country in the '30s and '40s, or the epic struggle against Japanese invaders, or the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Notions of the past exist, but when tales are told they are often without context. Exotic ancestresses mince through the background on bound feet; pig-tailed great-grandfathers take to ship for lands of greater promise. What was it that they fled...