Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carl Klein, the assistant secretary of the Interior in charge of water-pollution programs, has been racing around the country staging flashy Administration-sponsored teach-ins on ecology, hoping thereby to defuse the radical (and Democratic) potential in America's decaying environment. He has created student groups like SCOPE (Student Council On Pollution and Environment) to co-opt young people into Administration programs...
...number of applications received by Wednesday will be the final determinant of the scope of co-residential living next year, and no more extensions will be possible, May said...
...Justice Wilfred Paquet, 67, a no-nonsense jurist with a reputation for running a tight courtroom. Somewhat Churchillian of mien and manner, Paquet swore the jurors to secrecy, warning them that their lips were "sealed not for a month, not for a year, but forever." He also narrowed the scope of their investigation by informing them that they could consider only those matters brought to their attention by the superior court, the district attorney or their own personal knowledge...
...Brendan Behan ranks high. In his rambunctiously brief 40-year life, he left the modern theater two plays, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, that have already shown a durable vitality. He also wrote an autobiography of his late teens called Borstal Boy. Though it lacks the density, scope and genius of Joyce's book, this is Behan's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. With a loving fidelity, Playwright Frank McMahon has pasted together a play that is more of a stage scrapbook, an episodic family album in which the elder Behan (Niall Toibin) sits...
...Festival opens its eleventh season with a two-week series of performances and lectures in the lively arts. The program-which has been designed to appeal to a broad range of student tastes-represents a juxtaposition of conventional and more revolutionary stylistic forms, as well as an unusually broad scope in its aesthetic definition. Film-lovers will be attracted to hear Quincy House Man-of-the-Year, Arthur Penn-now famous for his innovative direction of Bonnie and Clyde, as well as his heralded Broadway accomplishments-and those interested in the more technical aspects of the cinematographic craft will enjoy...