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Overall, still, Elizabeth is overshadowed by the context in which she is crowned; she is not so much an active participant in her life as an intelligent spectator of the Baroque scheming that surrounds her. Though this film at times feels like the Corleone saga circa 1551--there is even a sequence late in Elizabeth which cross-cuts between shots of the Queen at prayer and the conspirators against her being assassinated--this capo of England never chooses to become "Godmother." And without Elizabeth's complicity in her own fate, the consquences of her power lack the tragic heft...
White said she was disappointed that the third party did not come to her first to discuss her intentions and to understand the context of the e-mail message...
...personal commitment to education did not diminish this summer, but my ability to evaluate my service efforts within a social and cultural context certainly increased. The kids at Atitjere weren't looking for someone to help them read. They were looking for someone to understand them. Daniel B. Baer '00 is a social studies and Afro-American studies concentrator in Quincy House...
...Arriving at the Museum, I discovered that few of the films listed in the program booklet had anything at all to do with what most consider the watershed experience of Jewish culture. "Jewish themes" went beyond the Holocaust to examine universalisms of love, death, and family within the specific context of Judaism...
...still uneasy. I knew love and death and family; it was the specific context of Judaism part that discouraged me even before I got to the Museum. I expected to be one of few Christians intruding into an event meant to galvanize a culture of which I was not a part; while I could appreciate all that I saw, I could never really belong. My grandmother gave me a delicate gold crucifix on a chain when I made my First Holy Communion (the gift is a tradition on the Italian Catholic side of the family), and it crossed my mind...