Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minimizes the intellectual performance of blacks. This black cultural separatism is a remnant of the ideologically-filled sixties. It is invisibly imposed in order to provide self-security of blacks and institutional leverage over a variety of campus operations. The repercussions of this cultural behavior are national in scope and are manifest on the undergraduate and graduate levels. He concludes that the future quality of the black elites and professionals are at stake. The situation can be rectified by breaking down these separatist restraints, with blacks interacting more fully with their non-black peers as well as inculcating achievement-oriented...
...started with a 3,500-word story by Shipler published Feb. 25. Shipler had spent six weeks studying the scope of U.S. assistance to the Thieu government. He interviewed privately employed American technicians who service South Viet Nam's military hardware-equipment and maintenance paid for by the U.S. He also sought an explanation of U.S. policy from American officials. The ambassador, who has sharply reduced press access to the embassy since he arrived in August, refused...
EVERY YEAR Gerry Moshell chooses an opera for the Lowell House Music Society that is far beyond the scope of Harvard instrumentalists and local singers, and every year he manages to bring it off. With a string of three major successes behind him, this year Moshell tempted fate and selected Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, a work demanding an orchestra of virtuosi and a cast capable of tossing off the most treacherous vocal lines without strain. His most outrageous choice, it is his most outrageous success...
...time (1853) this sonata was a radical work. Its innovative harmonies and grandiose scope threatened and bewildered earlier Romantics who concentrated on shorter lyrical forms. However, Wagner, in a letter to Liszt, wrote, "The sonata is beautiful beyond all expression, great, gracious, profound, noble, sublime like yourself...
...perception is stated in appropriate terms, but its scope is unfortunately restricted. A concentration of children from wealthy, white suburban schools will also give them less "mutual stimulation" than will classmates with mixed backgrounds. De facto segregation deprives white children of their equal educational opportunity--the opportunity for exposure to different life styles and attitudes...