Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central to the unfolding of the drama and treacherous for any actor, demanding the illusions of drunkenness, terminal illness sudden realizations and even borderline madness. Fortunately for this production as a whole. Bart Naylor's performance as the son is close to flawless. In a play that leaves much scope for crossing the line to melodrama and heavy handedness, and in a presentation in which the other actors allow themselves from time to time to slip over the edge. Naylor creates an agonizingly credible and sympathetic character. The realism of his emotion is never marred by a tendency towards...
...colonized and neo-colonized population against imperialism. He called upon the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to bring charges against the United States in the United Nations for its domestic oppression of blacks. He drew parallels between the colonized status of Africans and Afro-Americans. "Travel broadens one's scope," Malcolm was fond of saying. As he learned that the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America were exploited by the same international economic system, and therefore faced a common enemy, he extended his black nationalism to the next logical stage: internationalism. He developed a Third World, anti-imperialist analysis...
Leontief, who developed the input-output formula that helps economists determine how changes in one sector of the economy affect other sectors, has other complaints about the department. He is bitter that it did not broaden its scope by granting tenure to four radical economists in the past few years (three subsequently left) or by hiring the woman who assisted him in developing applications for his formula, Brandeis Professor Anne Carter...
...informed by one of his fellow councilors that he is peeved because The Crimson does not give him the kind of coverage he feels he deserves, and so he threatens to humiliate them by forcing Lampoon Avenue into their address. By his actions he indicates an unusually small scope of vision and suggests to all that he has not yet reached mental puberty...
...candor that is his most politically attractive quality, the President proclaimed himself the bearer of "bad news," declared flatly that "the State of the Union is not good," and announced that he did not expect "much if any applause."* Then he unfurled an economic and energy program of considerable scope, great complexity and huge risk...