Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS THE MOST STRIKING THING about President Bok's fifth annual report is his failure to offer answers to most of the questions he raises about the different Harvard faculties, their roles in society and their internal focus. The omission is not surprising: it stems from the breadth of the issues he brings up, and suggests that Bok, like the various faculties, is not quite sure that answers exist...
...some cases, of an imaginary Africa-in the form of tents. The tents are not habitable. One, entitled Sudan, has no entrance; the gloomy space inside is occupied by a stuffed toucan on a perch, eerie blue in the half-light. The accessible space in Sahara, for all the breadth of the piece, is a small womblike pocket. La Luna and Asia Solo can not be entered at all. They are not so much environments, therefore, as three-dimensional paintings, and their subject is landscape: moons and sand, licorice-colored skies, cave darkness, vines...
...chance or game structures, underlies Dean's work. A frequent device is the repetition of sequences in units of arithmetical progression. For instance: 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. Dean systematically explores the stage space using the most basic configurations: circles of varying breadth, columns and lines, an occasional diagonal. Clarity, precision--some viewers would say transcendence. Like a minimalist painter, Dean discovers meaning in subtle variations and trans-formations of repeated units. They are simple units immediately accessible to perception: one section consists of spinning, another of jumps...
...Government slot. Insists a Carter aide: "We have been looking in the last two weeks for different kinds of people, for a new face. Jimmy has high respect for Turner." This sentiment seems to be shared by the admiral's service colleagues, who admire his intellectual breadth, capacity for hard work and -what may be most important to the President-proven skills as a manager...
Henry finds secular philosophies inadequate not only because of logical weaknesses and unexamined presuppositions, but also because they do not take into account the breadth of human experience. Without revelation from God, he says, philosophers cannot prove their case for the dignity of mankind, nor can they provide any coherent basis for the truths and values to which people, religious or not, want to cling. In his view, the Bible offers the most comprehensive and satisfying explanation of "the meaning and worth of individual existence...