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...high-spirited Jubilee Games. In Miami, Elliott Carter, 77, heard the Composers Quartet chart his latest passage through twelve-tone thickets in his String Quartet No. 4. And in Philadelphia, there was the premiere of Queenie Pie, a little-known "street opera" by Duke Ellington. Rarely has the breadth, diversity and achievement of American composers been in such abundant evidence during so short a period of time...
...think a lay audience has ever had a menu [of activities] laid out before them of this breadth, depth and variety," says Stephenson...
Rome readily acknowledged Curran's charge that he had been singled out. A Vatican official said it was the "length and breadth and depth" of Curran's dissent that caused him to become the first American to lose his teaching license. In 1968, for example, Curran organized 600 U.S. academic and church professionals to endorse a statement taking issue with Pope Paul VI's condemnation of contraception in the encyclical Humanae vitae...
...slambang simplicity espoused by Reagan and Meese. For as Jefferson noted two centuries ago, the founders "laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves." And as Tribe's latest book, God Save This Honorable Court, clearly shows, the very breadth of the Constitution makes it an imperfect guide in specific matters. Such vague phrases as "unreasonable search," "equal protection of the laws," or "due process," writes Tribe, "not only invite but compel the Supreme Court to put meaning into the | Constitution" rather than simply trying to take meaning from...
...senior concentrator James Wolf calls VES "the bastard child of an art school and an architecture school," and some students dislike the concentration's breadth, saying they would like to see it's subject matter broken down into smaller, more intensive departments. This breadth can lead to disillusionment among concentrators. "VES is a real Harvard invention," says concentrator Sergio Huidor '88. "They want to make sure that everything interlocks, and this results in careful but not thorough teaching. There are only two painting courses, introduction and intermediate, and then you have to do everything through independent study...