Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Restic-cuts sweep through Cambridge, we must remember to keep football in context: go to the games, root for the home team, but remember, deep down, that these were the guys who poured spaghetti into your book...
...more serious question about Souter's ascetic ways is whether a man who seems to prefer books to people can empathize with and understand the problems of ordinary people. Former state attorney general Steven Merrill says he once feared that Souter lacked "the social context" to serve as a judge, but that concern dissipated once Merrill got to know him. Former girlfriend Fink says, "Having never married, I know everyone is wondering does he have the empathy to understand women's issues. He's not all brain. He's a friendly, warm person and extremely considerate." His former colleague Rath...
These are facts whose cumulative, corrosive effect on Southern distinctiveness is obvious. But there is also the mass culture's relentless assault on the sense of context, continuity and community in the South no less than elsewhere. White Southerners of my generation were raised on the glories of the Lost Cause. Our grandchildren are raised on Saturday-morning cartoons...
...oldest festival of new art was a long-overdue gesture. But alas, the best thing to be said about it is that Holzer is a woman. Considered as art, the installation by this 39-year-old conceptual artist seems lavish but mediocre, especially when divorced from the feverish context of the Biennale's opening...
...meets an untimely end as a result of his own ambition, which in the context of the film can be understood only as a very dark joke...