Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...references to Jos Sedley, the buffoon in Vanity Fair, underscores the scope of Darwin's literary erudition, if not his uncanny ability to always fit the quote to the situation at hand. It is a difficult task indeed to find a paragraph in Mostly Golf free of a literary snippet. Darwin was as at home writing an introduction to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as he was smashing a niblick off the Kentish heath...
...women declared their solidarity with the women of the world and protested against what they saw as the oppresion of their kind by the capitalist system. This year at Harvard, the International Women's Day program, with its speeches and cultural events, was just as serious although different in scope. The women who gathered at Emerson Hall on the weekend proclaimed a goal at once more limited and more all-encompassing than the objectives of the sweatshop workers in 1908--the creation of a women's studies concentration at Harvard as part of a general movement toward eliminating what...
Although the books differ in scope and style, they provide a wealth of detail about local and national politics during the periods when they were close to the centers of power. The books abound with famous names, dropped casually. From Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan to Eisenhower, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy brothers. Saltonstall, now 84, told his life story, from elementary school through retirement, to Edward Weeks, a former editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The book is written in an oral, conversational style. Weeks presumably asked questions to guide Saltonstall's memory and helped organize the narrative...
...musical styles. His recurrent themes of the demise of mankind, the descent of aliens from the stars, communication and travel to other worlds, have demanded by their very nature new kinds of expression. As progressing years brought sweeping advances in the realm of electronic sound, Bowie's musical scope expanded. The suspension of disbelief required by his futuristic songs was facilitated by the surprise element of sounds unfamiliar to our ears. Bowie's blend of rock and myths bridged the gap beautifully, and contributed to the originality of his sound...
...about his presentation ("I'm an actor, and part of this competition is theater"). Teammate Tom Mulligan nibbled chocolate-chip cookies and poked at his minicomputer. Said Cornell's Nancy Read in the small hours: "As the evening has progressed we have done nothing but enlarge the scope of our ignorance." Knowing nods greeted her, and the team decided to take a 1 a.m. pizza break. The reports were limited to five typewritten pages, but there was no restriction on appen dixes. Chicago's theorists produced eleven. All teams met the noon deadline (Dartmouth with seconds...