Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film wanders aimlessly from the hills of Wales, to the streets of Paris, to the lakes of Switzerland, but it really goes nowhere at all. It is not that one would want powerful intellection or epic scope or even moral paulon from Truffaut. One would merely like something more substantial than tender-minded emotionalism. Truffaut is too young to be wistful and too old to whine...
...rest of the measures represent a grab-bag of concerns, large and small. Some are old standbys: fluoridation programs, school bonds, lottery and bingo proposals, and wetter or drier liquor laws. Others are new either in scope or in concept. One example is California's incredibly stiff anti-obscenity proposition (TIME, Oct 23). Among the more interesting...
...structuralist and denies any assertion that archaeology is a new "science." But the instinctive question of the partisan of traditional history, "But why do things change?" is not even raised. It would not satisfy such a critic to answer that the complexity of this question lies outside the scope of Foucault's inquiry, or that it belongs to an older form of history...
...Harold Lee who organized and ran the church's vast and efficient welfare system from 1937 to 1959. He now wants to expand the scope of Mormon welfare to include more rehabilitation programs for alcoholics, drug abusers and ex-convicts. The church remains tightly mum about most expenditures, but one sign of prosperity is a new 30-story, $30 million world headquarters recently erected behind the temple. By Mormon policy, all buildings are paid for as they are built...
...Union's billion-dollar purchase of U.S. wheat and other crops. The sale has also raised charges from Democrats that some Nixon Administration officials unfairly tipped the big grain companies to the impending deal, enabling them to buy wheat relatively cheap from unknowing farmers before news of the scope of the Russian deal drove up prices. Yet the Communists bargained shrewdly; it was by covering up the great size of their requirements until the last moment that they apparently bought at bargain prices...