Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While its very variety makes the book somewhat unsatisfactory for consecutive reading, it has the happy result of revealing clearly the breadth and the highly specialized nature of White's particular genius. It reveals also, in White's own words, "a man unable to sit still for more than a few minutes at a time, untouched by the dedication required for sustained literary endeavor, yet unable not to write...
...more I thing about this, the more it seems to me an unsound practice. There is nothing about the nature of membership in the Senate or the house of representatives which should give each member a general commission to go through the length and breadth of the land, far from his own state or district, far from the seat of the general government, even on formal delegation to him from his House or one of its committees. Committees I am willing to accept. Subcommittees of one give me pause...
Premier Joseph Laniel, who had led most of the way and was at one point a hair's breadth from victory, saw that he could not win. He approved three other candidates, all from his own conservative Independent Republican Party. Of these, the one who proved most acceptable was a 71-year-old Senator named René Coty. On the eleventh ballot, Coty had 71 votes; on the twelfth, 431; on the 13th, he had 477-more than enough to win. Sad and tired, Loser Laniel congratulated...
...thanks and admiration for your objective discussion of the White Case. Your brief evaluation in a historical light had the breadth and soundness of political science, very unlike ordinary political argument . . . When hooting crowds shame the Republicans for Teapot and denounce the Democrats for Hiss and White, the true significance of all the sound and fury is that America is simply changing its mind and its attitude and finding scapegoats in the process in the usual manner of democracies . . . JOHN WISE
...breadth of his experience has given Malraux a passionate humanism that contrasts vividly with the dry gripings of most critics. "A man becomes truly Man," he maintains, "only when in quest of what is most exalted in him. . . There is beauty in the thought that this animal who knows that he must die can wrest from the disdainful splendor of the nebulae the music of the spheres and broadcast it across the years to come, bestowing on them messages as yet unknown...