Word: context
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...Health in a communal and spiritual context is a function of the immediate and intimate experience of belonging, of finding meaning and worth in that experience of collectiveness," David says...
Your story on the election of a chair for the Undergraduate Council Reform Committee (news story, March 19) reported, without any context, inflammatory, unfair and inaccurate remarks made by former council president Robert M. Hyman '98 about the candidacy of William M. Jay '98. Minimal research on the part of your reporter would have made clear just how off the mark Hyman's attacks on Jay were...
...idle to expect that artists and writers, torn from their context and milieu and dropped by the fortunes of war into a strange society, would easily continue to produce their best work. One who did was Mondrian, whose years in New York culminated in the wonderful Broadway Boogie-Woogie paintings, which couldn't be borrowed for this show. Beckmann painted some of his greatest allegories after 1937, when he fled to Amsterdam. Among them: Birds' Hell, 1938, his one clearly political work, a lurid scene of martyrdom with a bird-headed torturer carving parallel stripes on the back...
...some the new context of exile provided a degree of artistic stimulus. In London, Kokoschka got to know--largely through his Marxist friend the refugee German art historian Francis Klingender--the tradition of English caricature, the mordant images of Hogarth and Gillray; they are reflected in such paintings as Anschluss--Alice in Wonderland, 1942, with its trio of figures, the appeaser Neville Chamberlain, a German soldier and an Austrian Catholic bishop, imitating the Chinese monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. And the ever alert Salvador Dali managed to include a number of proto...
...expected to discuss China's critically-important most favored nation trading status, the trade deficit, nuclear proliferation, missile sales and human rights, he has no desire to provoke the government in public. He told reporters vaguely that he would raise the issue of human rights only "in the context of the overall agenda." As TIME's Beijing bureau chief Jaime Florcruz reports: "Since last year, the Clinton Administration has cobbled together a more coherent, over-arching China policy that Clinton has described as 'constructive engagement.' It's a relationship that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright maintains will not be held...