Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afrequent criticism of Mr. Coffin's poetry is that it is too narrow in scope. His treatment of Maine people, Maine customs, landscapes, and feelings, is acknowledged to be of a particularly perceptive and persuasive type, but beyond Maine and a few scattered corners of New England, Mr. Coffin's ability as a poet does not exist. It is said that he is a "regionalist," and that his poems can be understood in their full implications only by the elect versed in the ways of those exceptional anthropoids who carry on their own quaint, inbred existence north of Portland...
...poetic inspiration. And as a local poet, he can assume, in his own words, that he is a "representative of the people." There is more than merely a simple exposition of peculiar traits indigenous to Maine in his poems. He who would classify Coffin as a provincialist, limited in scope to the portrayal of a single group of individuals, might as well judge the significance of a sculptor's work by the quality of clay be uses...
...hugely difficult. For one, the University proposes rapidly to extend on a large scale its existing facilities for supervision and guidance. This is hardly enough. This would amount to the institution of tutoring merely to compete with that in the Square; and not even on equal terms, since its scope would be more limited...
...from the one before the World War. Citizens of that pre-War world had no knowledge of what lay ahead of them, had no historical precedent for the tragedy toward which they were moving, and even the statesmen who tried to avert it had no conception of its terrible scope. On the evening of Aug. 3, 1914, when Great Britain pondered war, Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of the Foreign Office, watching the lamps being lit in the summer dusk, and said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again...
...Scope of The Races of Europe* is ambitious: "To trace the racial history of the white division of Homo sapiens from its Pleistocene [Glacial Age] beginnings to the present." Dr. Coon believes that the species Homo sapiens-modern man-evolved as early as the middle of the Pleistocene, or even earlier.† The first known white representatives were short men with long heads. Some of them blended with bulky Neanderthaloid types, produced a fairly stable hybrid group. After the Pleistocene's end these hybrids survived in Europe as hunters and fishers. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean area a race...