Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of his countrymen for its theme of collective culpability for World War II, and he left Germany in 1949 to teach at Basel University. Most of his works were agonizingly abstruse and seemingly preoccupied with reconciliation to failure and death as prescriptions for personal salvation. But The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (1949) was both a definitive defense of his own existentialist position and a vigorous affirmation of the durability of the human spirit...
Unhappily, violence in international relations is burgeoning both in frequency and scope. Hannah Arendt warns that "the amount of violence at the disposal of a given country may no longer be a reliable indication of that country's strength or a reliable guarantee against destruction by a substantially smaller and weaker power." "Destruction" may be too strong a word, but it is true that the old balances between large and small states are changing. As Yale Political Scientist William J. Foltz points out, disruptions in established diplomatic order "tend to take place at times when the world is shifting...
Perhaps the professors' difficulties in grasping the scope and depth of this monstrous injustice stem in part from their teaching and working in a 99 per cent white university -- an elite, businessman-banker-controlled university, at that. Nonetheless, the realities of American society are such that a course on George Wallace's favorite theme -- "An End to Urban Violence" -- might just provoke some sharply negative responses from the intended victims...
...contemporary extension of the rational, analytic tradition which included Freud. Laing is a contemporary representative of the mystical humanist tradition which, in the last two centuries, has produced such formidable anti-rationalists as Blake, Nietzsche, and Hesse. The position of Laing in this tradition is beyond the scope of this article; his parallels with Blake, Nietzsche and Hesse too numerous to summarize here...
...male group with eleven whites, three Negroes, only two college graduates among them), Garrison entered the Orleans Parish Criminal courtroom just once, and then only as a spectator. With the jury finally sworn in, Garrison wanted to make certain that the trial started off with all the scope and drama that he deems appropriate. He went to the front of the dimly lit, 38-ft-high courtroom, drew himself up to all of his 6-ft. 6-in. height and confidently intoned a 42-minute opening statement...