Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oval Loops. In the past two decades, Bacon's work has gained immeasurably in its scope of color and plasticity of drawing. With the recent triptychs and other paintings, his ambition to reinstate the human figure as a primary subject of art has been to some degree fulfilled. No other living artist can paint flesh at this pitch of intensity, in this extremity of rage, loss and voluptuousness, or with this command over pigment. His typical setting is familiar: an anonymous oval room. It has tubular furniture, somewhere between a Corbusier couch and an operating table. Sometimes a bare...
...fact that Harvard made a fundamental change in the personnel structure under the guise of an administrative improvement is dishonest and reprehensible. The issue is that Harvard maintains that unions of University employees should be University-wide, and opposes bargaining units of a more limited scope, such as the one the Medical Area Employees Organizing Committee is presently trying to create in that area...
...task: the representation of life in all its fullness, not only those incidents that conform to his thesis. Peter Davis is the talented creator of much-prized TV documentaries (Hunger in America, The Selling of the Pentagon). But these were simpler projects on a smaller screen. The subject and scope of the Southeast Asian conflict are too large for such narrow-gauge examination. Unhappily, the war has not yet finished exacting its terrible penalties and distortions. Like so many before it, the procrustean Hearts and Minds began as a warrior; it ends as a casualty...
Stay Pot. The same plight faces the ambitious worker who is stuck in a job that gives insufficient scope to his talents. In better times, he would look for and probably find another job. During recession, he is likely to stay put and may do only enough work to keep on drawing his paycheck. His career is blocked; society misses the enthusiasm that he could bring to a new job and incurs a loss of productivity...
...these matters are far beyond the scope of John Hersey's novel. It's simply too easy for Americans reading More Space to shut out the world, to take refuge below the trees in the Yard and in the sun along the Charles, because Americans have more space...