Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson reporter, who miraculously found time to attend the theater, reports that, in the middle of the student-produced musical The Errols three huge Confederate flags descend onto the stage. The flags, of course, are presented within the perfectly proper context of the plot, and the director managed to avoid the controversy that has surrounded other flag-hangers. But given the recent popularity of that Southern symbol, the producers of The Errols might consider holding a used flag sale after the show closes. We understand there might be some takers...
...healthy that we, like the Israelis, should hear about the bad--so long as it is put in the context of Israel's position in the Middle East. That's what should happen in democracies, after all. In free societies, things happen and people know about them. America--like Israel--is no exception. We remember Kent State, Vietnam and Watergate. Britain lives with...
Ignoring for the moment that Adam Webb's figure for the percentage of homosexuals in America is probably wrong--2 percent is probably too high (see Kinsey, Sex, and Fraud, 1990)--Webb's other comments need to be taken in context...
...There has been a deterioration in the physical and emotional health of children," says Fuchs. "It is caught up in some way with the failure to resolve the gender issue. The fundamental problem is to deal with the problem in an egalitarian context without short-changing the children...
...south have plainly spooked Saddam. Last weekend in an apparent bid to soothe popular discontent, Saddam relinquished one of his posts, that of Prime Minister, and named a new 24-member Cabinet. The new Prime Minister, Saadoun Hammadi, formerly deputy PM, is a Shi'ite and, within the context of the ruling Baath Party, is considered a moderate. But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over a new leaf, especially since the ironhanded Interior Minister, Ali Hassan Majid, has kept his job. "The Cabinet is window dressing," says a U.S. government...