Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...historic decision on racial segregation (TIME, May 24), the U.S. Supreme Court dealt directly with only one phase of the problem: public schools. This week, the court gave a much broader scope to its anti-segregation position. In six separate cases, the court...
...sound at Annandale-on-Hudson as its academic standards. Finance--or lack of it--is an important factor in restricting the scope of all the college's undertakings. Many buildings are in a state of disrepair. New dormitories, erected shortly after World War II, are either "barracks" or "dwelling units." The extent of student activities and the facilities available in teaching courses are also adversely affected...
...only way left to shorten the inquiry, then, is to stop irrelevant oratory and stay within the scope originally planned. Senator Mundt, as Committee chairman, is the only man who can keep the hearings in line. But to cut down digressions, he will have to discard his smiling manner for the less popular role of bulldog...
...Under Milk Wood. The original theme first came to him when he was commissioned to write a short radio script for the B.B.C. He reworked this play, adding and swerving more and more from his intended plot, for ten years up until his death last November. Because of the scope of his drama, Thomas would probably never have been through polishing and revising. In Under Milk Wood, he is telling of all mankind, and it is his favorite story...
When Flaubert died in 1880, he left Bouvard and Pecuchet, his "kind of encyclopedia made into a farce," unfinished and unedited. In scope, it was to be Flaubert's masterpiece: a satiric work compounded of his life-long scorn of the bourgeoisie, their morals, their intellectual giddiness, their thoughtless generalizations...