Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...museum's insurance company for a cash fraction of the value. That might sound hopeful, except that there is no insurance company to bargain with. The Gardner Museum -- like many other U.S. museums -- carries damage insurance but no theft coverage on its collection. To do so in the context of today's art prices, a spokesman explained, could cost some $3 million a year; the museum's total operating budget is only $2.8 million...
...suitable substitute for seeing a production, we do not believe it is a waste of space to tell people "what a Beckett production is like to watch." There are some Crimson reader who, in fact, do not know what a Beckett play is "like to watch," and context within a review helps inform them...
Both the medical and economic arguments for euthanasia are rejected by the powerful right-to-life movement, which commands hundreds of thousands of supporters nationwide. And as on the abortion issue, their stance against mercy killing is based on a theology that places the entire debate in a different context, that of a family of faith that tends most lovingly to its weakest members. The sanctity of a human existence, they argue, does not depend on its quality or its cost. What God gives only he can take away, and to usurp that right is an act of grave hubris...
...stage on which his players perform is a subject of some conjecture. U.S. Senator Bill Bradley is willing to try to define it. "He sees the game conceptually. He sees the whole game and the whole court, and he sees it in the context of the entire season." The writer John McPhee puts it in a different context. "Pete has a matador's view of basketball. It is a ritual, an art, a series of set pieces, one following the other like a series of slides." Yet George Leftwich, a gifted offensive player at Villanova, currently a college coach...
Julie M. Hanlon, a Divinity School student who contributed to the journal, said the magazine frames the progressive anti-abortion viewpoint in a liberal, feminist context...