Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the rifle checked through his telescopic sight and nodded in agreement. Then both men tested the wind. About 5 m.p.h., they decided. The rifleman adjusted his sight. Slowly he stretched out into a prone firing position; he rested his rifle barrel on his helmet and sighted through the scope, allowing just enough Kentucky windage to compensate for the breeze. Then he began the gentle, steady trigger pull of the expert marksman. The exact moment of firing came as a surprise-which it often does when a good rifleman has squeezed off a proper shot...
What endows Pinter with his immense theatricality also seems to stunt the scope of his mind and art. All the world's a stage, but the stage is not all of the world. The question remains whether Pinter, having amply proved bis ability to capture a particular mode and style of dramatic existence, can or will move on to describe more comprehensive states of being...
...expected to advise the Pope on current problems troubling the church and to extend the legislative accomplishments of the council. But as at the beginning of Vatican II, change-fearing conservatives of the Roman Curia-perhaps acting under papal orders-have worked hard to limit the synod's scope...
...Curia-prepared secret reports outlining the agenda topics vary considerably in imagination and scope. Least impressive is the one on seminaries-a two-page memo that offers no specific proposals for the improvement of priestly training. The document on canon law, however, recommends that reformation of the church's code he undertaken in a spirit of charity rather than conformity to regulation, and that the duties of ecclesiastical superiors as well as their subjects be spelled out, since "the rights of every member of the faithful must be recognized and safeguarded." The document on mixed marriages raises the possibility...
...Durants are sometimes superficial: they are bound to be, considering the scope of their enterprise. But they have also achieved depths and insights lacking in many academic works. The charge that they are popularizers is meaningless. Of course they are popularizers-and great ones. It is apt that in this last volume they write of an age when to be a popularizer was still considered something brave and even glorious. As Will Durant once said: "History is baroque. It smiles at all attempts to force its flow into theoretical patterns or logical grooves; it plays havoc with our generalizations, breaks...