Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Madrid the Association of Indian Cultures announces that it will mark the occasion with acts of "sabotage." In the U.S. the Columbus in Context Coalition declares that the coming event provides "progressives" with their best political opening "since the Vietnam War." The National Council of Churches (NCC) condemns the "discovery" as "an invasion and colonization with legalized occupation, genocide, economic exploitation and a deep level of institutional racism and moral decadence." One of its leaders calls for "a year of repentance and reflection rather than a year of celebration...
...says his plans for Eliot include trying to promote more in-house drama and "thinking of innovative ways to bring the students and faculty back together--the kind of intellectual discourse that the houses are designed to foster within the social context...
HARVADIANS look down their noses at anyone who dares to mention TV in a non-pejorative context...
...story about contemporary neuroses, Kundera has fabricated a context in which everything, literally, can be claimed to matter. What is more, the author indulges this obsessiveness without ever droning or turning out a dull page. In its inventiveness and its dazzling display of what written words can convey, Immortality gives fiction back its good name...
Actually, it is journalism in hard cover. History requires analysis, context, good writing and -- something Woodward never provides -- footnotes, sources, some kind of record that scholars and other readers can check to determine how well the author has done his job. Although The Commanders lacks all that, Woodward does provide interesting insight into how a democratic government functions in times of crisis. If there are no eye-popping disclosures, there are many new details. Among them...