Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a function which no Harvard institution serves, and that is to encourage intellectual breadth. Mr. Pusey, I hope, had in mind that good use of the intellect includes more than applying it to curriculum, and that PBK might reward this broader...
...Australians reported in Nature that Vega, the first star measured by the new instrument, turns out to have an apparent diameter of 0.0037 seconds of arc, about one five-hundred-thousandth of the breadth of the full moon. Since the distance of Vega is known, its absolute diameter can be calculated as 2,800,000 miles-about 3.2 times the size...
...scene that awaited McNamara, therefore, was about as grim as ever. Four more U.S. advisers died during the week, raising the death toll of Americans in Viet Nam to 194. In an ominous admission of the breadth of Viet Cong influence, the Saigon regime pronounced 35 of the country's 42 provinces "unhealthy zones." With the military undergoing its umpteenth reshuffle, the 7th Division, south of Saigon, got its fifth commander in five months. A widely advertised "pacification" drive in the area was at a standstill. Only two months of the dry season-the best time for chasing guerrillas...
Spears is most successful in suggesting the breadth of Auden's interests, his wit, and the complexity of his thought. He is least successful in telling you anything interesting about the poet's life and in nurturing any desire to read Auden's poetry...
Knife's success testifies to its breadth of appeal. This summer the movie won the International Film Critics Award at Venice and took First Prize at the New York Film Festival. With subtitles in a score of languages the film is presently touring the world. It is a sensitive story well told, and it is one more proof that fine cinema demands neither gargantuan budgets nor stunt men. May it live to laugh at Cleopatra...