Word: contexts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retaliation to the "vague," "biased," and "inflammatory" Crimson editorials seems designed to distort and obscure the basic issues. The charge that the Council is self-perpetuating and undemocratic is ignored, and the attack on the system of choosing a Council is neatly nullified by Weld who quotes out of context and then shouts "contradiction." If the Student Council is serious about justifying its activities to the student body, it must be primarily concerned with answering the main questions directed to it, and only secondarily interested in bickering with the Crimson...
...student, applying his eversharp pen to Cunningham's back in the prescribed manner lifted a few of the phrases sticking out all over the column and cited them as an example of something or other very bad. William objected unhappily that that was taking a statement out of context. "A honey of a way to take a person apart," he grieved...
...lifted bodily from Henry IV, Part 2, is boldly invented. The shrunken, heartbroken old companion of Henry's escapades (George Robey, famed British low comedian) hears again, obsessively, the terrible speech ("A man ... so old and so profane. . . .") in which the King casts him off. In this new context, for the first time perhaps, the piercing line, "The king has kill'd his heart," is given its full power. In the transition scene which takes the audience from Falstaff's death to the invasion of France, the Chorus makes a final appearance alone against the night...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...
Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro of the North American Newspaper Alliance cabled from Berlin that, after all, the general had made "casual observations based on what he saw . . . but the controversial remarks were taken out of the context and put together by correspondents...