Word: breadths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern and European. I shall quote only one letter, that of Robert McCormick Adams, the distinguished anthropologist and Mesopotamian archaeologist...
...read "religiously"; the few zines I'm going to talk about here are distinguished not so much for their slavish reflections of my particular taste, but for their widespread availability (i.e. you could walk into Newbury Comics or In Your Ear or even Tower Records and buy one); their breadth (i.e. there are lots of bands and records covered in each issue); and their high entertainment value...
...university is supposed to promote. Because it is easier to do well in fewer courses and in courses form one's concentration, the current system encourages the grade-conscious to take courses in familiar disciplines. Considering how much students are paying for their education, and considering the intellectual breadth with which many students would like to design their education, all reasonable measures should be taken to ensure that students have more course options during their college education...
...Year at U.C. Davis," but he couldn't find a rhyme for "Davis"). Pointed Accounts of People You Know (1983) and Distortion (1984) are shorter and easier to dig, with delights to be found not only in the multiple melodies and the self-conscious wit, but in the sheer breadth of brightly muddy synth sound in, say, "Metal and Glass Exact...
...Kimble has been lost. He can still spare risky time to help others, like a child being ignored, at peril to his life, in an emergency room. He still has the recklessness that comes to people who have nothing left to lose (the most spectacular of his hair-breadth escapes is a dive into the torrent coursing over a dam hundreds of feet high). And he still has his own pursuit to pursue -- of the one-armed man whom he alone knows is his wife's actual murderer...