Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Horn, painted in 1938, the second year of his exile from Nazi Germany. Max Beckmann holds a bugle, which he has just blown. His eyes don't meet yours; he looks away, listening for an answering note. It's a piercing image of the artist deprived of his context, hoping to connect, uncertain that he can. European man, signaling from a collapsing world...
...context of the service adds an element of integrity to the performance of the cantatas. motets and organ music. These pieces are compelling and thrilling as art for art's sake, but hearing them performed today in the original setting of a religious service can be especially poignant. Authenticity has glorious alchemical properties...
...these ideas were banal nearly 30 years ago, they seem even more so in the context of today's habitually ugly headlines. It is curious, then, why anyone would tackle a remake of the film without having come up with anything more insightful to say about the nature of evil. Nevertheless, In Cold Blood the mini-series arrives this week...
Granted, Harvard mediocrity is nothing to sneeze at, but in this stifling context of ambition and overachievement it is easy to lose perspective...
...have shown Life Skills to reduce the rate of teen drug use. Designed to combat teen smoking, it is a series of role-playing and problem-solving exercises with not even a mention of marijuana until lesson No. 3. "The idea is to present drug resistance in a large context of social skills kids need to navigate the minefield of adolescence," says Gilbert Botvin, director of Cornell University's Institute for Prevention Research, who developed Life Skills based on behavioral data about teens...