Word: copiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less important is the analyst at headquarters who must make sense of copious, often conflicting information. He has to feel free to speak his mind, to dissent, to challenge. His independence needs to be safeguarded. Above all, he must have time to think. Caught up in a crisis, a President has a tendency to turn the agency into a kind of wire service to provide hour-by-hour commentary. This cuts down man-hours that should be available for the long-range analysis that may help a President prevent a crisis in the first place. The CIA fights a constant...
...spent all night assembling, Trevor, with one helping touch, reduces it to a pile of kindling. Ayckbourn is an alchemist of incipient disaster, and his absurdist humor cuts through the veneer of domestic tranquillity with a serrated edge. Yet his surgery is oddly healing, a kind of revelation through copious laughter and minimal malice...
...marvels at the copious flow of his invective ... Henry James [was] that "miserable little snob" whose preference for English society and English literature drove Roosevelt to near frenzy: 'Thus it is for the undersized man of letters, who flees his country because he, with his delicate, effeminate sensitiveness, finds the conditions of life on this side of the water crude and raw ... and so goes where he will be sheltered from the winds that harden stouter souls...
...escaped his attention. Now he displays his wit and erudition in an extravagant three-volume work that has no precedent and is not likely to have successors. The Annotated Shakespeare has no restrictions; it suits the actor and the scholar, the general reader and the child. Its pictures are copious but never merely decorative. Some 4,200 illustrations compare ancient productions with those of Laurence Olivier and Marlon Brando. Woodcuts from Holinshed's Chronicles, which Shakespeare ransacked for his plots, jostle with faded maps and new costume designs for the Stratford festivals...
...case raises two compelling−and competing−concerns. In support of Niemi, the California Medical Association cited copious evidence that TV contributes to violence, including a study commissioned by ABC in which 22 of 100 juvenile offenders confessed to having borrowed criminal techniques from television. But some psychologists argue that violent programs provide a vicarious release for aggression. The networks and some First Amendment scholars fear that Niemi's suit, if successful, will drastically undermine constitutional free speech guarantees. "I would regard it a very dangerous principle that would hold a broadcaster or a publisher liable...