Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage of true minds, both partners have to learn to respect each other's roles, and to accommodate themselves somewhat to the limiting conditions within which the other fellow works. The policy maker has to realize that he cannot demand and obtain instant scholarship; that objectivity and reflectiveness and depth of perception can only be had at the price of some loss in immediate relevance to the policy maker's current concerns; and that a good batting average for a successful scholar is probably a lot lower than it is for a major league ball-player...
...Schoenberg's slow, brooding Five Piano Pieces, he stretched and examined each phrase with all the intense care and concentration of a surgeon. In Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, an awesome challenge to pianists twice his age, he impetuously jiggered tempos and juggled rhythms without catching the full depth and breadth of the music. In Mozart's Sonata in F Major, he was all lucidity and logic, rippling through the trickiest passages with an almost playful ease. His interpretations were introspective and often compellingly original; his technique was dazzling, his involvement total...
Yale won the first places--seven of 13--but Harvard, with just four firsts, won the meet. It was the Crimson's depth that carried the day against the strongest Eli track squad in years. Harvard took seven third places to Yale's two, and nine fourth places to Yale's none...
...sending white-Negro police teams into ghetto schools, running workshops for gang members, assigning patrolmen to walk around meeting people and "dispel stereotypes." On the test scores, Fisk beat Reddin by a hairline half of 1%. The city's five police commissioners nonetheless picked Reddin for his overall depth and breadth. As deputy chief, Fisk will expand his community-building efforts...
...Crimson does, however, have fine depth in all these running events, and since the meet is scored on the basis of four places instead of the usual three, Harvard has an edge. Also, Princeton has Alan Andrini in the mile and Jack Endrikat in the 1000--both of whom could pull off victories to upset matters a little...