Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such planning, Dean Spaulding believes, goes beyond the scope of our present teachers' colleges and university schools of education, but as schools of education become loss isolated from other university departments, he said. the resources of the universities can be used more directly for solving educational problems and this opening new horizons for youth...
...burden of adjustment lies partly with the scientists themselves. Dean Donham stated; they must "consciously direct scientific thought toward social problems." But more important in his opinion are the responsibilities of government administrators. Here "the scope of political action must be clearly defined." Detailed control of business, in his opinion, requires great bureaucracies, which in return require a dictator with "power to break through the coils of red tape if the machine is to function...
...current exhibit at the Fogg Museum, "Art, Genuine or Counterfeit," is successful because it places little emphasis upon the highly technical methods by which a true painting can be distinguished from a false one. By limiting the scope of its explanations to what can actually be seen by the spectator, the demonstration avoids that laboratory amosphere into which it so easily could slip...
With this scheme, moreover, Sibelius is able to pack climaxes of Wagnerian scope into a symphony a half an hour long. Bruckner had great conceptions, but his ideas meander baldly around and get lost in the involvements of the sonata form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly...
...thing that surprises most people about Jim Williams' cartoons is the scope of their subject matter. He can draw a machine-shop scene one day, a cattle ranch the next, then a small-town home of the early igoos, and get all his details right, make his characters true to life in each environment. Reason: Jim Williams has, at one time or another, lived or known all his characters himself...