Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only author who tried to surpass the encyclopedic scope of Ulysses was Joyce himself. He spent 17 years working on Finnegans Wake, a book intended to portray Dublin's sleeping life as thoroughly as Ulysses had explored the wide-awake city. This task, Joyce decided, required the invention of a new language that would mime the experience of dreaming. As excerpts from the new work, crammed with multilingual puns and Jabberwocky-like sentences, began appearing in print, even Joyce's champions expressed doubts. To Pound's complaint about obscurity, Joyce replied, "The action of my new work takes place...
...They represent our entry into a new phase ofour lives," he says. "In the larger scope, manyHarvard activities center on tradition to honoradmirable individuals that have gone throughbefore us."CrimsonPaul S. GutmanSeniors swarm to the Sleep...
...Richardson's literary interests are not confined to Conan Doyle mysteries. Sargent says he is impressed by Richardson's "very wide scope of interests; he has knowledge that is much more than the average reader's in any area...
That's because the President's bodyguards have almost certainly witnessed a great deal more about the President's private life than they have been willing to divulge. The secret sessions in recent weeks were designed, Justice lawyers say, to help narrow the scope of Starr's questions and, if possible, enable officers to answer them under oath without having to slug out the privilege issue in the courts. Much of the questioning focused on events occurring in the days before Lewinsky's abrupt transfer out of the White House in April 1996. Starr wants to know whether some incident...
...DaimlerChrysler team aims to adopt a similar strategy. But this alliance will work on a different strategic level than do most other globalization efforts. First and foremost, the sheer size and scope of this merger all but assures mutual survival in ongoing global consolidation. Along with Ford, Toyota and GM, DaimlerChrysler will be a first-tier, all-world player...