Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the war, Jung has lived by the banks of Lake Zurich, treating a few patients and keeping a keen eye on the most difficult patient of all-the world at large. He has never stopped writing, revising his concepts, or enlarging the scope of his inquiries. He has explored medieval alchemy, not because he has any interest in its pseudo-chemical aspects, but because he considers it interesting psychologically: for the most part, he sees the alchemists as seekers after original religious experience outside the permissible limits of the medieval church...
...book often has the pleasant, ungirdled quality of small-town gossip, is never bitter or doctrinaire about the South. It also manages to maintain a bit of suspense about the Wales-Greene mystery, though most of it gets lost in such a welter of flashbacks that even Cinema-Scope will have trouble straightening things out. The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand...
...self-imposed limitation on the scope of defensive action, fatal to the hope of victory in Korea, would no longer apply in the Formosa area; in the event of Red attack, the U.S. would pursue the enemy by air into the mainland...
...December Charles Nagel, in charge of the Brooklyn Museum, got the nod from St. Louis (his home town). Soon afterward Edgar Schenck, director of the Albright Gallery in Buffalo, was tapped by Brooklyn. Schenck frankly stated his reasons for shifting: "Better salary and wider scope of activity...
...scrapped the First Amendment--as a poor security risk." But just as when he picketed strikes 20 years ago, Lamont's concern is not for his personal safety. "I am glad to risk a year in jail in attempting to win a judicial decision properly limited the scope of Congressional committees." the Court has not yet given a ruling on contempt of Congress has not yet given a ruling on contempt of congress caused by reliance on the First Amendment. Lamont hopes his case will produce this ruling...