Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourists reflected their satisfaction at the turn of events, but it also raised a question: Had the Malenkov affair been, as Communist sources were anxious to make out, a personal power struggle on the lines of a Maffia feud or a Chicago gang fight? Or was it, remembering the breadth and depth of the Soviet state, and the irreducible fanaticism of the Communist ideology, a power adjustment of pro-founder significance...
...simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with writing." For a young writer, Faulkner kept saying, the only thing that matters is a craving to write: "The writer's got to be demon-ridden, to have the demon drive, to express the breadth, beauty, injustice and compassion of life...
...Four Chaplains. Despite the obstacle of its weak and sometimes sentimental libretto which was only spasmodically idiomatic, Mandelbaum has written a frequently powerful score. There is, at times, a Hindemithean austerity to the harmony, but the opera, his second to be presented at Harvard, has a pervasive lyricism and breadth. Despite furiously active conducting by the composer, there were a few more problems with the orchestra, which will no doubt be smoothed out during the run. The staging by Lewis Steel was fine...
David Gross is a pianist with plenty of technique and musical understanding. At Leverett House Sunday afternoon he played works by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Gross performed with breadth of conception; he plays in continuous wholes, in entire pieces, rather than in contiguous notes and phrases. This is an elusive quality, more to be felt than analyzed, but it is a considerable merit and without it music cannot have true formal coherence...
When these agencies were set up some of them at least had a well-defined mandate, despite the apparent breadth of discretion. This was true, for example, of the Commerce Commission. In the case of radio, Congress never faced the problems and perhaps didn't even suspect their existence. The areas are depressingly complex; the agency is buffeted about by contrary winds and currents without chart or charter. The crucial question is not whether it has exceeded its grant of power, but whether it can frame a coherent policy for current problems. Basically, the facult, if any fault there...