Word: contexts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein does not condemn colleagues who did odd jobs for the CIA. "Some of what happened was, in the context of the times, understandable," he says. "Some is less understandable. This is just a story to try and find out what happened and why." But it may be more than that. Though the article has so far received little attention in the foreign press, there is the possibility that some nondemocratic governments, having long used the specter of CIA ties as grounds for expelling troublesome correspondents, will now cite, however incorrectly, Bernstein's story as justification for their acts...
...Organization for Women was merely a group of souls who "travel from community to community, from state to state even, to help each other out." As for his views on rape, Simonson saw no reason to recant. Said he: "I might have said them a little differently. But the context would be the same...
...Their context is a remark by Stephane Mallarme: "The intellectual core of a poem conceals itself, is present-is active-in the blank space which separates the stanzas and in the white of the paper: a pregnant silence, no less wonderful to compose than the lines themselves...
...tragedy in the 1950s and the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. "Nonetheless," Revel adds, "the French left has to hear it played again on another instrument. They had it last time on the piano, now they are getting it on the tuba." In the current context of French politics, the leitmotiv of the New Philosophers may well be the theme that many are yearning to hear...
...broader context, the panel noted that the number of children under 18 who live in two-parent homes has dropped from 89% in 1960 to 80% and speculated that family disruption might lower scores. TV was cited as a probable factor: the panel figured that "by age 16, most children have spent between 10,000 and 15,000 hours watching television, more time than they have spent in school." Then, too, the decline in scores took place during a decade of distraction: "political assassination, burning cities and the corruption of national leadership." Finally, the group cited a striking lack...