Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Clifford Odets's "Night Music" echoes with protest, this time neither capitalist system nor class is the object of attack. Odets has taken in a far larger scope; his newest play concerns the struggle of the individual with a world that is constantly oppressive. Exuberant and brash, it criticizes the contemporary "wasteland" and glorifies a life in which human nature runs free. For Odets the answer lies in youth with its comic overtones and serious ideals. It is a play tempered with bitterness but full of hope...
During the question period, the first lady expressed approval of the National Youth Administration. In her opinion, the scope and power of this organization should be greatly enlarged, since it is now only able to provide for less than one-sixth of the unemployed under 25 years...
...Russia's rich oil fields. Krasnaya Zvezda, newsorgan of the Soviet Union's Commissariat of Defense, observed: "The scale of war preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere diversion limited in scope and character, but by far-reaching strategic plans." Fortnight ago First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill invited Scandinavia (among others) to pitch in and help defeat the Nazi-Bolshevik combination. British public opinion was last week discernibly dissatisfied with the present "defensive" course of the war and more voices...
...Verdun. But Malraux was working within far narrower limits, in what physicists by analogy might call a closed field-more exotic, more melodramatic, less austere than Romains'. John Dos Passes' ambitious trilogy of pre-War to post-War U. S. A. appears nearer to Romains' in scope, but his great powers of narrative and evocation are spent on a host of minor characters, his structure weakened by journalistic sketches and personal asides, his style a brilliant feat of skating fast over thin...