Word: breadth
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...verse, they left no written history or literature and, alas, many questions about their culture. But more and more Celtic remains are being uncovered across Europe, the latest one a remarkable burial site discovered this summer near the West German city of Stuttgart. From these finds the extraordinary breadth and depth of Celtic civilization is slowly emerging...
...where the footing is not firm, taking pains to warn the reader when he lacks evidence to substantiate his conclusions. Moreover, Leakey seems to have absorbed every tiny fact ever written pertaining to his field and, consequently, his contentions come across as carefully considered and tenable. It is the breadth of Leakey's knowledge in the field and the skilled writing that makes his conjectural synthesis work...
Second, says Yankelovich, the revolt is a protest against government waste, inefficiency and power. Though people have felt keenly about waste for a long time, the breadth of this feeling is new. Back in 1958, 42% agreed with the statement, "Government wastes a lot of money we pay in taxes." In 1968, 60% agreed and this year the figure is 78%. Fully 80% interpret Proposition 13 as a call to trim excessive spending...
Because it is huge, exhaustively researched and written by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., an eminent historian who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, this biography will probably be heralded for years to come as the definitive portrait of Robert F. Kennedy. The book's breadth and scholarship merit this attention; future students of R.F.K. and his age could do far, far worse. But those too young to have experienced the 16 turbulent years of Kennedy's public life may leave Schlesinger's extended guided tour with a pronounced feeling of bewilderment. Why did Bobby waste time campaigning...
Isaac Bashevis Singer's constant readers know well what his books promise: the sense of returning home to a place and a time that few now living ever inhabited. Over the breadth and span of nearly 30 volumes, writing originally in Yiddish, Singer has resuscitated the Poland that existed before World War I and then, precariously, between the wars. He has peopled his land with the folk he knew when he was growing up among them, creating in the process a nation of characters. Their names have changed from book to book and story to story, but they have...