Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons that the university has gotten out of hand are not only financial. The university is expected to do things now, to perform services for society directly with its resources. To a great extent, that is how the university will directly serve the needs of society--the needs as the government sees them. The problem with the new university is that it has become relevant; it is doing things that it has not been equipped to do. The new function of service--no matter how much men like Pusey believe it is the modern thing to be doing--is tearing...
...poetry. Glauco Cambon's study of Ungaretti in the Columbia series recalled the war poems as "flashes of insight bursting through the shell of established prosodic convention to capture the immediacy of inner experience." And Ungaretti himself reflected (in an essay titled "The Mission of the Artist") on the extent to which his culture has been wounded by the damages of war: "The recollection of iniquity and ruin lodges atrociously in our flesh and in our souls...
American and British composers have been misrepresented to some extent by the works which have proven digestible, but it still seems that they possess a weary delight in the mood of the rose-garden. The typical audience salivates for the caramel center of he symphonic repertoire. Its decayed sweet tooth cannot be extracted by more sugar, and its delight in gratuitous perfumes cannot be disciplined by more profferments of dusty oleander. This never-ending recovery of "adolescence" and "national roots" on the part of Anglo-Saxon composers, their incessant celebration of the precious and popular, reaches an apotheosis of sorts...
...general, the U.S. orbit of protection is extremely limited, and the closer a threatened country is to the U.S. the more concerned Americans are with helping to defend it against aggression. North America, and South America to a lesser extent, seems to Americans worth defending, as does Western Europe. Otherwise, however, more Americans than not would rather that the U.S. stay out, except for Asian areas with an obvious special interest for the U.S.-South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. Only a minority would give U.S. assistance in a crisis to such third-world nations as India...
...year among women on the Pill, where they used to see only one or two before the Pill. Both the increased blood pressure and the estrogen's effect on the clotting mechanism may be responsible. There are a few authenticated cases of severely impaired vision, even to the extent of blindness, as the result of clotting in the minute retinal arteries...