Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Testifying next day, blunt-spoken Robert C. Sprague, Massachusetts electrical manufacturer, co-chairman of the 1957 Gaither Committee study of U.S. defenses (which the Administration refuses to make public-TIME, Dec. 2, 1957), declared that the U.S. must be awakened to the scope of the overall Russian threat. "There is only one man in the United States that can do this effectively, and that is the President," said Sprague, a Republican. "I believe, and this is a personal belief, that the danger is more serious than the President has expressed himself to the American public...
...past three years, for example, the agency employing Benson had accepted commissions to write theses for at least eight graduate scholars, for fees ranging from $350 to $3,000, on subjects ranging from the Elizabethan theater to the educational ideas of Robert M. Hutchins. The racket was national in scope: Benson found that New York agencies advertising in national periodicals attracted indolent scholars from as far off as Texas, Indiana and Alaska...
...that the good works of President Pusey and his young bespectacled Dean for the past seven years have been generally commendable. Dr. Pusey was far less a creature of the flaccid fifties than President Eisenhower, of our political capital; one must look abroad to find a match for the scope and imagination of the Program for Harvard College, since the "Great Leap Forward" is its only contender. We have thrown up our fat, white hands and decided that Mr. Bundy is neither a wicked man nor a bad dean...
...pleasures the play provides--but it often sounds self-conscious and sometimes resembles a parody of a bad historical novel. (A line like, "By gad, sir, she's as pretty a wench as ever I bedded!" seems right out of Forever Under.) Moreover, in his attempt to expand the scope of the eighteenth-century style to accommodate his expanded purpose, he resorts to frequent bursts of the stiffest, most intolerably pretentious sort of "fine writing...