Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mall. At first she thought it was just a tasteless joke. "I expected the six to get up and walk away laughing." Then she saw the pavement splashed with blood, and more people falling. In the first 20 minutes, relying chiefly on the 6-mm. rifle with the scope but switching occasionally to the carbine and the .357 revolver, Whitman picked off most of his victims...
While Stone has only begun to put pencil to paper, he intends that the project will combine the grace and delights of Mogul architecture with all the benefits of modern technology. Says Stone: "It is the dream of every architect to do a project of this scope. It hasn't happened more than half a dozen times in history...
...main problem with the late Beethoven quartets is one of scope. These works stretch the expressive potential of the string quartet to the limit. While they are conceived on a scale comparable to that of any of his major orchestral works, they face the tremendous problem of developing within the bounds of an idiom whose orchestrational possibilities are very limited. As a result, Beethoven sometimes demands more of the string quartet than can be done with the instruments at hand. His Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132, however, carefully skirts any such fault. Ideally played, it demonstrates true virtuoso quartet...
...What is needed now is not to accept and build upon popular misapprehensions about the scope of the decisions, but to point out the baseless-ness of those fears," to declared...
...scope of the "conspiracy" against Tito was reflected in his choice of Brioni as the site of the purge. Both Ranković and Stefanović are Serbians-the dominant race in Yugoslavia's six-nation mix*-and Belgrade itself is the old Serb capital. Tito may well have feared that by denouncing Ranković on his home ground, he might trigger a Serb uprising...