Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed little practical interest in the fight against Communism. He voted for 7 out of 16 of the amendments to limit the scope or cut the amount of ECA and other foreign aid bills. This year, he voted for a $500 million cut in the Mutual Security Act extending military and economic aid to Europe. Commented a fellow Republican Senator: "McCarthy simply has never been in the picture. He's off on that stuff...
Even Ch'en Tu-hsiu, the leader of the early Communist party, was not a rabid Communist. He believed in secular Manchester liberalism, yet took Party control because he thought that revolution would sweep the world. But Moscow doubted that students could carry through a revolt of national scope. Russia wanted China as an ally and designed to combine the new Communist party with the older Nationalist Koumintang as the only way to make a solid front...
...coach who wants to scout without travelling for hundreds of miles, the big telecasts are just fine. In the limited scope of a television camera, line play is much easier to watch. On the other hand, the lack of contrast in the blacks and whites on the screen makes the ball very hard to follow and quite impossible to follow when a tricky play fools the cameramen into focusing on the wrong parts of the field. The Princeton and Navy offenses managed to do this pretty often...
This fragile fable reaches its climax in a beguiling 17-minute ballet that recalls The Red Shoes' dance sequences but dwarfs them in scope, lushness and variety. Set to the Gershwin musical suite that gives the film its name, the ballet is a kaleidoscope of the city's landmarks and moods, shifting with the adventures of the hero in his pursuit of the girl. Dance patterns, costumes and scenery fuse handsomely to paint each scene in the style of a different French artist: Dufy, Utrillo, Renoir, Rousseau, Toulouse-Lautrec...
...foremost problem that interviewers had to surmount was the scope and method of the interview itself. This was solved by giving four separate interviews to allow leeway for personal opinions, bias, and other psychological intrusions...