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That is no small task because Mendelsohn's interests encompass "the whole area of world peace and the overcoming of the desperate arms race," says John Sullivan '38, an associate executive secretary to the AFSC's international division who has known Mendelsohn since the 1950s. In working toward...
Because the University has no uniform dress code to encompass all personnel departments, individual supervisors set codes at their discretion...
...extended military metaphor is Solzhenitsyn's own. Scarcely any other image is large enough to encompass the feat of a writer who consistently outwitted and outmaneuvered Nikita Khrushchev, the KGB and the Soviet literary establishment in the pursuit of his mission: to bear witness to the Gulag before his countrymen and the world...
...happy cast, and if all ghosts were as finger-snapping fun ny as Saundra McClain (Christmas Present), being haunted would be more a dream than a nightmare. Yet the highest praise of all has to go to Robin Wagner, whose sets, as clever and as intricate as Chinese boxes, encompass half of 125th Street. Wagner was the unseen star of such mediocre musicals as Ballroom and On the Twentieth Century, and he gives special luster to this Christmas card from Harlem. - Gerald Clarke
...patios and mini-parks, the three blocks encompass the most extensive urban planting of trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers of any North American city: more than 50,000 indigenous maples, dogwoods, pines, brooms, junipers, sword ferns, rhododendrons, yews and creeping roses. In some green areas, traffic cannot be seen-or heard over the splashing of waterfalls. To some, the sloping, low-rise structure resembles an Inca temple reflecting the spectacular beauty of the Pacific rim on which it sits...