Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born to Rule. Thirty years an M.P., twelve a Cabinet minister, he is Britain's best-informed diplomat, its most seasoned negotiator. Yet his career has been a narrow one that lacks the human breadth of a Churchill's, a Truman's, or an Eisenhower's. Eden has seldom strayed beyond the polished confines of Westminster and Whitehall, and his public sense does not derive from an easy personal acquaintance with the common man. Far more, it is an inbred instinct, the product of Eden's membership in that unique class of Englishmen...
...feeling of "intellectual holocaust" into which Darwin's doctrine of evolution by natural selection plunged the world. So much the better that Stanford University's Professor William Irvine should be the man to have made the attempt. U.S. biography has become world renowned for the depth and breadth of its research, but almost invariably it has paid for its weightiness in stolid writing and lack of imagination. Author Irvine (who proved his touch in 1949 with The Universe of G.B.S.) is one U.S. biographer to show that vast masses of research can be moved around with light-fingered...
...committee looks for the man's suitability as a future physician. It is interested in the breadth of his mind, the broadness of his vision, his creative imagination, his character, his integrity, his capacity for growth, his ability to relate to people and his emotional maturity," he continued...
...press conference, Ike, again observing his ban on personal invective, generalized his retort to Butler, but his generalization cut wide and deep. Said he: "I think too often politicians look into a looking glass instead of through a window ... I really believe you [reporters] are better judges of interests, breadth of interests, capacities and the kind of things we are trying to do, than some politician who, looking in the glass, sees only reflections of doubt and fear and the kind of confusion that he often tries to create...
...directors still weren't satisfied. Having plied the public with promises that wide screen photography would add new breadth to the screen, they just had to figure out some useful thing to put in the new or at least, extended-dimension. When photographing a Roman chariot, the hack director would merely requisition a few more horses. But this was not Art, and Oscar was considered a step brother to art (their mother wasn't married-giving an indication as to what kind of Art we are discussing). Adding more extras to fill in the blank spaces was no real innovation...