Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funeral of René Coty, the last President of that era. But it was Charles de Gaulle, the man of the Fifth Republic, who stepped forward to deliver the eulogy. He clearly intended it also to be a funeral oration for the Fourth Republic. Praising Coty's "breadth of vision and good sense," President de Gaulle turned with bitter words to the old "regime, paralyzed by its own confusion," and its leaders, "who failed through impotence...
...Long View. These programs, however, are only imaginative alternatives to the broad base of Yale undergraduate education that DeVane accepts as his primary responsibility. Noting the "increasingly fierce specialization of the graduate schools"-which eventually draw 75% of Yale College graduates-he insists on maintaining the breadth of liberal arts. "We have no time for the transient or the immediately applicable and quickly advantageous," he once explained to a gathering of Yale parents. "We aim to give the student the solid and permanent studies of man's concerns, a long view of man's life and a vision...
...approaching 50.000 circulation-up from 5.000 the first year-Foreign Affairs is within a hair's breadth of paying its own way. But the magazine remains the same journal that was conceived 40 years ago: an international forum, still wrapped in the same blue cover, still printed on a flatbed press, still paying heads of government $150 an article. All that has changed is the world. Isolation did indeed die with the last doughboy, as Foreign Affairs' founders so clearly foresaw. "All we can really say after 40 years," says Editor Armstrong,"is that we've been...
...Senators to the mountain peaks and the stars beyond, or I would lead them gently down a rustic road in Illinois. With words, I would lay bare the heart of a flower or pry open the fiery core of the atom that the Senate might appreciate the depth and breadth of the Senator from Illinois." Ev might have wished he'd said that...
...sort that has always existed in prosperous, energetic societies. Light-hearted and lightweight, they are fun to read about; they jazz up the sometimes drab quotidian scene; they add froth and zest, but they are not made of the stuff to set the pace for a country of the breadth, height and complexity of America. W.E.G. TAYLOR New York City...