Word: encompassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THAT the movie is uniformly gray. Chekhov intended his plays to be comedy of a sort, and the comic moments are not lost in the film. Vanya's senile mother reads her pamphlets on the emancipation of women and smokes cigarettes (which seems to encompass her idea of emancipation). Astrov gives a stirring rendition of the weather report when Vanya interrupts his seduction of Irina--an example of the Chekhovian principle that the words we exchange in conversation don't mean a damn thing. And Vanya, the prototype useless intellectual, constantly brings a smile of recognition with his temper tantrums...
SOME naturalistic novels you read like you would your Freud or Marx, to grasp some wide-scale analysis of human experience to use to change your life. Others you might read solely for their expressive vision of a stratum of common experience, which might encompass ideology enroute, but is mainly concerned with the stink and feel of actions and their settings...
...immediate June reaction failed to encompass the real role of RAND in the Vietnam War. Although a number of think tank types participated in the historical analysis that produced the Pentagon Papers, their findings make clear that the formulation of actual policy was firmly in the hands of elected and appointed officials, not RAND consultants. And in no sense was RAND the "developer" of Air Force participation in the war. That honor goes to the Air Force, the Department of Defense and the White House, Certainly RAND is implicated, but along with "improved" methods of Air Force operation in Vietnam...
...givers' part. As a Pulitzer juror last year, he complains he was expected to scrutinize 134 entries within nine hours. McCormally claims that such a system "allows for some pretty good journalism to get lost." More importantly he contends that the selection group is too narrowly based to encompass all that is new and vital in journalism. For the sake of diversity he would add such nonjournalists as Jesse Jackson, Saul Alinsky, Daniel Berrigan and Spiro Agnew...
...felt that Afro-American Studies should encompass as much of the African and Afro-American experience as possible offering courses in such areas as music, science, history, literature, economics, psychology, etc. A diversity of courses should be offered to provide: (1) An overview of the many areas of Black life from which one may choose to specialize: (2) A supplement to other fields for those not concentrating in Afro-American Studies: (3) A black perspective on life especially for black students. However, it is felt that a focus on certain specific areas is essential. Two or three areas such...