Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...essence the Center cannot be distinguished from the general academic context of which it is a part. The demand to suppress it is in fact a demand to suppress freedom of academic research. Serious radicals ought to be the first to defend that freedom. Any effective effort to adapt and reform our society and the international order will depend heavily on the quality of thinking and knowledge on which it rests. The universities are one of the few places where such independent analysis can be carried on in a systematic way. If the extremists should succeed in disrupting the universities...
...opened our records and personal correspondences to people who have quoted them out of context and distorted them for their own purposes. I was also at the receiving end during the McCarthy period and this is similar. You worry about what you say to students and colleagues. I feel this is more than unfortunate...
BOUTON does make an effort to place the game of baseball in a larger social context. According to the owner's canon, baseball is the place where racism, class inequality and other forms of discrimination do not exist. "You're all ball-players and you all put you're pants on one leg at a time." Branch Rickey told the Brooklyn Dodgers before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and of course the ball-players responded with warmth and affection to their new "colored brother." Or so say the sportswriters and owners. Bouton, on the other hand, tells of Elston...
...Alba Madonna, or even the museum's other and better Cezannes. Its interest is mainly historical. Cezannes of this date are rare. Even the ineptitudes of this gawkily powerful portrait-such as the clumsy handling of the trousers and the armchair-have a certain interest in the context of Cezanne's development, reminding viewers that genius has to grow and is not born full-blown...
...time (1890-1944), founding mother of the enormous Angelus Temple and its 750 satellite churches, pastor to a radio parish of millions. Biographer Lately Thomas, who recounted one episode of her story a decade ago, fails to see his subject in any depth, or place her in historic context. Even so, his portrait of Sister Aimee makes grotesquely funny reading and shows the lady off as essentially what she was: a terrifying natural force...