Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Lear (by William Shakespeare; produced by Robert L. Joseph & Alexander H. Cohen) is possibly the greatest single achievement in all literature-and the greatest stumbling block known to the stage. The play's scope, declared the late great Critic A. C. Bradley, is too vast for any stage to encompass; while Charles Lamb contended that the title role cannot be acted, that Lear's greatness is inward and "intellectual," and that when put behind the footlights he becomes merely "an old man tottering about . . . with a walking stick." There are other problems. The sharpest drama...
...than half its budget for military needs for eleven consecutive years. But this is not enough. The 2,000,000 men Turkey will raise tomorrow cannot be armed and singlehandedly defend the Middle East on $100 per person. I urge Americans before it is too late to extend the scope of American help to Turkey . . . Turks are willing to fight. They are good soldiers (ask their enemies) . . . In the last 300 years they have fought the Russians in 13 wars totaling 51 years, one year out of every six! If Mehmet is called again to fight the Moskovs, he must...
...hours after he was sworn in, Wilson found that some Congressmen were ready for a chat. The Joint Committee on Defense Production, like the rest of the U.S., was eager to know the scope and direction of his plans. Wearing the blue, pinstriped suit in which he had been sworn in earlier in the day, Wilson was the first to arrive in the shining marble hall in the Senate Office Building. He tucked his big hands into his side pockets, pulled his chin firmly back and greeted Congressmen pleasantly as they straggled...
Alger Hiss was near the end of his road. Last week a U.S. court of appeals decided there was enough believable evidence of his guilt. The "breadth and scope" of Whittaker Chambers' testimony against him had been "adequately substantiated," said the court. Nor could the court find any reversible errors in his second trial, which ended last January, in Hiss's conviction for perjury on two counts...
Winkler will teach Government 203, "Nineteenth Century Political Thought," in place of Louis Hartz '40, associate professor of Government, who will devote most of his time to research. Winkler will also teach Government 208, "The Scope and Methods of Political Sciences...