Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist regimentation lay not in the rifles of a few thousand guerrillas, but in millions of hearts. In 1950 he told a Peking Public Security Administration Conference that the suppression of "counterrevolutionaries" was the first necessity of the new state, that it would be a continuing necessity, and its scope and difficulties would increase rather than decrease as the revolution continued. On this thesis Lo built his rise to power...
While the graduate program at M.I.T. is intense, it is--as the Institute itself--constantly in flux, trying to define its goals and scope without rigidity. Life may be harried, but the student himself has a chance to participate in the process of definition...
Although the panoramic scope of the camera lacks the intimacy and intensity of the stage production, the acting and singing still convey the tenderness and the bitterness of the story. Heading the cast are Gordon MacRae, whose voice has never been stronger, and Shirley Jones, whose charm is matched only by her singing. In support of the two who play Billy and Julie are Cameron Mitchell as an adequately evil but beguiling schemer, and the Metropolitan's Robert Rounseville as Mr. Snow. And when Julie's aunt Nettie, Claramae Turner, sang "You'll Never Walk Alone," the audience...
...plot structure sometimes strains to justify it. Had Tolkien converted the work into a tragedy, he might well have made his impact even greater. Yet the portrayal of the conflict's complexities, especially the use of evil to a good end, is without parallel in a work of this scope...
...mastery of expression is probably the largest single factor in the book's success, a proof that emotive language need not be confined to poetry and advertising. Yet to call a work a successful epic, even when it combines scope, structure, and expression, is always dangerous. Perhaps more fitting would be the suggestion that for the twentieth century, Tolkien is more acceptable and more comprehensive than Malory, Spenser, or Milton...