Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Familiar, pleasant stuff. Yet what is remarkable is not that the thing is done, but that it is done so well. Writing from the viewpoint of an out-of-control character, Author Davis unobtrusively maintains order in her novel, limiting her scope sharply to Camilla's indrawn and pill-whacked consciousness...
...time that we all die ultimately, that we are dying all along, while we're living. But I'm not afraid, I'm more fascinated than afraid--I love growing older. Physical aging hasn't troubled me, either. I feel that the process of aging has given me more scope, breadth and power. Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved birthdays; each year gives me a sense of accruing more and more. I don't mean that I'm particularly anxious to die! I'm just extremely curious to see what is going to happen during...
...students. This reduction constituted the only response by an Ivy League university to the sudden financial crisis facing graduate education. Conferences in February with other Ivy League graduate school administrators revealed that although all schools had suffered equally from cutbacks in outside funding, Harvard alone had reduced the scope of its merit scholarship program...
Underlying the Department's decisions is a belief that radical economics is not sufficiently scientific. Although senior Faculty members admit that radicals ask important questions about the capitalist system, they argue that these questions are unanswerable and outside the scope of conventional economics. Some, but not all, argue that any questions about the socio-political context in which economic activity takes place should be left entirely to sociologists and political scientists...
...clutching the Styrofoam coffee cup that seems to serve him as a big worry bead, offered an uncharacteristically clear response: "I haven't enjoyed it as much over the past few months as I did in previous years. But I don't mind it. I understand the scope of what you're involved...