Word: breadths
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Broadening Vistas. Aiding such breadth is St. Mike's proudest claim to intellectual distinction: its Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, launched by French Medievalist Etienne Gilson, who now commutes between Paris and Toronto. Generally recognized as tops of its kind in North America, the institute has produced at least 100 graduates now adding scholarly luster to U.S. Catholic philosophy departments. In addition, the university itself has set up new institutes-Slavic, Islamic, East Asian-sharply broadening St. Mike's vistas...
That article in TIME on Pope John and the scope of his work is so outstanding that it deserves a place as the Article of the Year; not that I have read all the rest of them, but I can recognize a unique breadth of feeling for the needs and the drifts of the times. I would like to know and shake hands with the chap who did it, but I won't ask any indiscreet questions...
...province," wrote Francis Bacon. And in 1592, when most of today's complex sciences had not even been conceived, he was neither idly boasting nor wildly exaggerating. But among the many things that Bacon did not know was that despite his encyclopedic knowledge and the amazing breadth and power of his intellect, he was using little more than half his brain. Not until one short century ago did neurologists learn that one half of the brain-nearly always the left, especially in right-handed people-controls the movements of the opposite side of the body and the all-important...
...Bite and Breadth. There could be no better place for a solitary boy to explore; there was a baroque staircase in one courtyard, set with "superfluous little landings with niches and benches." There was a hinged portrait in a salon, which swung back to reveal a trophy room hung with "guns ranged in big racks, ticketed with numbers corresponding to a register in which were recorded the shots fired from each. "There were, each summer, strolling players who would politely request per mission to perform in the theater. When someone went for a walk, there was a carriage assigned...
...promises the bite and breadth of the earlier book, and the reader can only wish that Lampedusa had finished it. But true to his tradition, the author's spacious spirit required that time, like everything else, be spent with extravagance...