Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this context, the voices of feminist scholars must be included in the chorus of the academy. Not to make people feel more comfortable, as the Harvey Mansfields of the world charge, but to create better scholarship and better universities...
...change was met with great suspicion and anxiety, especially by faculty and professional staff. Communication about the switch was late and incomplete. Most members of the community had to interpret the change and make corresponding health insurance decisions without context or understanding of the challenges that led to it. Why did the introduction of the new program seem abrupt and unconvincing to so many on the Harvard campus? Primarily because the University did not reach a reasoned conclusion over time that a "point-of-service" plan was an appropriate idea here and ought to be pursued. Although such plans have...
Suleiman re-introduced the politicalcorrectness issue, couching her comments inacademic terminology. She explained the meeting'sevents through "intertextuality: Every statementoccurs in a context...
...context of this election, these precedents are less weighty than Bush's problems--with van Buren, his family, his education and his Southerness. For these reasons, my money's on Clinton tomorrow...
...finally, we need to stop misquoting Shakespeare. Yes, he did write "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." But this exhortation, when read in context, reveals that Shakespeare actually wrote this as a defense of lawyers, whom he thought defended society against tyranny and widespread anarchy...