Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sanger gave Craig a free hand in hiring young and decidedly irreverent reporters. The newsroom was soon adorned with beards, Afros and blue jeans. But changes went deeper than counterculture cosmetics. Sanger and Craig overhauled layout, expanded coverage of national politics far beyond the scope of most small-circulation papers (89,000 for the Journal, 47,000 for the News). They encouraged investigative reporting, including a series charging that Du Pont properties were receiving favorable property-tax assessments (the company denies...
Alevizos said he realized that Lamont was plagued by an outdated system when he first came to the library in 1964. The system, which does not extend beyond one decimal, cannot adequately classify the broad scope of today's material, he explained...
...under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, for all their differences, there has been a driving personal urge to power, a philosophical view of the presidency as the central institution in American life, and a whole series of external events and circumstances that gave vast scope for presidential activity...
...suppose that even pornographic movies must be judged contextually. Unfortunately, their context, if it exists, lies somewhere outside the scope of conventional criticism. What, after all, is good porn? Does it stimulate you? Does it make you (as some puritan souls seem to think) run out of the theatre mad with lust, ready to violate the first female body that comes along? Ironically, if pornographic films had this effect, perhaps one could ascribe some specious artistic quality to them. Good art, as they say, possesses the power to make you ruminate, react, and reach...
...like a Graham Greene operative, haunted by guilt, shrouded in original sin. John Le Carre's world of moral acrostics would be alien to him. Lancaster plays a thug, an opportunist for whom commitment is solely a matter of expediency. But the movie does not give him much scope to develop any of this. Sometimes, standing on a dark street in Vienna while waiting for a contact, he looks uncertain and lost...