Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Simone de Beauvoir is not talking, she is writing. Her novels, like her talk, run the gamut from just silly (All Men Are Mortal; TIME, Feb. 7, 1955) to brilliant (She Came to Stay; TIME, March 15, 1954). Her latest novel, The Mandarins (roughly, The Intellectuals), is not her best, but it is her most successful. It brought her close to a seat in the Goncourt Academy, fetched her the Goncourt Prize instead, and brought her a sale in France of 250,000 copies. Now that it is published in the U.S., it is not too hard...
...that neither Martin nor Hanson can easily achieve. The topics that come up in easy dormitory relations--where to buy an overcoat, how to select courses, where to entertain a date, how to solve academic difficulties or how to find a purpose in a college education--can run the gamut, depending entirely on which way the student steers the course. And, as one adviser said, "I've never given any so-called advice during office hours...
...classified emergencies under five loose-fitting categories, running the crisis gamut from a state of prevention ("when perturbation of public order is imminent") to out-and-out war. The various states of emergency can be declared by simple executive decree in all categories except war (which requires a congressional vote). Faced by the mildest disturbance, the President can dissolve political parties, order troops to fire on demonstrators, permit police to enter homes without warrants, force newspapers to accept censorship or shut down...
...voice has grown in range, flexibility and control-as she demonstrated last week when she sang with the famed Bach Aria Group in Manhattan's Town Hall. She steered the opulent sounds of her voice gracefully along the sometimes tortured paths of Bach's counterpoint. Its gamut was smooth and even from the light, flutey high notes, where sopranos often lose character, to rich, viola-like lows. When she finished her arias, she accepted her heavy applause and sat down serenely, secure in the knowledge that she could remain at the top of the concert heap indefinitely...
...first volume of a new 55-volume edition of Luther's works in flexible, modern English. Prepared jointly by St. Louis' Concordia Publishing House and Philadelphia's Muhlenberg Press, an arm of the United Lutheran Church in America, the new Luther will range the whole gamut of the reformer's work. Says Washington-born Theologian Helmut T. Lehmann, 41, who is in charge of the project: "We're not aiming this series at scholars. They can go to the original. This edition is intended for the searching layman, the pastor and the theological student...