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...There’s something awfully sympathetic about that context and that we ought to at least be able to see what the government has mandated be censored,” Hansen said...
...major problem with this collection is that it suffers from too much editorial fussing. There are too many letters which consist of a single sentence (sometimes a sentence fragment) bookended by ellipses bound in brackets; too many paragraphs wrenched out of context and tossed into another section of the book; too many references to paragraphs being deleted because they've already appeared in a previous collection of Wilson's correspondence, "Letters on Literature and Politics: 1912-1972," which has clearly been thought of, unhelpfully, as a template for the present volume. The editors seem to be working under the assumption...
...context of recent developments, President Bush's musings on CEO responsibility are as understated as the expenses in WorldCom's financial statements, the flashpoint for new worries of widespread accounting abuse. WorldCom said that an internal review uncovered huge hidden expenses--mostly line charges that it pays to other telecom carriers--that were characterized as capital investments, a gimmick that boosted its profits...
...anti-Europe to be anti-euro, drew the wrath of commentators and Jewish groups, who called it offensive and predicted it would backfire by painting the campaign in xenophobic colors. But George Eustice, the campaign's director, insisted that "anyone who sees the clip in its context is not going to take any offense." He may be right - nearly. Before the launch, focus groups said they didn't find the Hitler gag offensive. Meanwhile, the protests gave the ad enough free publicity to achieve its goal of lining up popular figures against a currency that over 50% of Britons...
Carré also makes frequent reference to the social context in which the basic Creole phrases are used in Haiti...