Word: encompass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hocracies. All this arises because men can no longer absorb all that is relentlessly new, and traditional institutions seem unable to encompass and interpret headlong technological change and its social consequences. Writes Toffler: "It is not simply that we do not know which goals to pursue. The trouble lies deeper. For accelerating change has made obsolete the methods by which we arrive at social goals. The technocrats do not yet understand this, and, reacting to the goals crisis in knee-jerk fashion, they reach for the tried and true methods of the past...
...directed not so much at wiping out the Vietcong refuges along the border as toward ensuring the maintenance of a regime in Cambodia that is friendly to American influence. That regime, of course, would have as a primary goal the elimination of Vietcong forces; but its modus vivendi would encompass a larger range of social and economic tendencies which are compatible with the American presence. As in South Vietnam, U.S. strategy in Cambodia amounts to shoring up a military dictatorship that will permit American interests to flourish there...
...Architecture, the charrette* depends on the constant interplay of ideas. Its most important aspect is the participation of people normally outside the decision-making process. When the concept was imported to York by the city's Community Progress Council, a federally financed antipoverty agency, it was broadened to encompass all areas of community concern...
Here is evidence suggesting that a girl has contributed to triple manslaughter, was constructing bombs for whatever dastardly purposes, had thereby blown up one house and caused substantial damage to others-all of which must encompass a veritable fistful of felonies. And yet her parents, the father a lawyer no less, refuse to cooperate with the police...
...music to encompass the total black experience, says Tenor Saxophonist Archie Shepp: "The field holler, the ring shout,* the sanctified church. That doesn't exclude white people, but if white people are to be included, they must emerge with a kind of humility," For Trumpeter Don Cherry, the music speaks most eloquently for the whole musician. "Man is a species, all human," Cherry observes. "The rest is pastels. Beware of distractions...