Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the territory he traverses is not new, Rabe strides across it with such intensity that the playgoer is raptly involved. What Sticks and Bones lacks is size and scope. Rabe is good enough so that he ought to ponder what makes a dramatist an enduring force rather than simply a Geiger counter of his times. The Greeks and the Elizabethans, who deemed men valiant heroes as great as their doom, produced awesome drama. It is the current American fashion to see men as brain-bleached automatons, and our drama has shrunk to precisely those mean, narrow and dispiriting dimensions...
...torrent of words raised in celebration or regret has necessarily dealt in fragments. The scope of the war, the vast numbers of lives involved, make any whole accounting of it impossible. In some ways, the best hope for a unified dramatic impression lies in fiction. Yet American war novels so far have ranged from broad-gauged pop, with legions of far-flung participants (Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, 1948), to hysterically myopic, if sometimes heartbreakingly funny indictments of war as madness (Catch-22, 1961). In between, slogging platoons and companies (led by Sergeants Mailer and Jones) glumly pressed...
...Charles P. Price '41, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and preacher to the University, said yesterday that he had decided to discard Memorial Church's long standing, all-male tradition because "I am anxious to increase the scope of the ministry, and that seemed the obvious...
Gravel's attorney argued yesterday that Garrity's ruling provides no prior determination of either the scope of the government's inquiry or the legitimacy of its questioning. They maintained that Garrity had not established a safeguard to prevent the grand jury from becoming "an oppressive instrument" that would "conduct a total fishing expedition into the activities of the legislative branch...
They asked the court to quash Rodberg's subpoena and to provide in the future both a statement of "the purpose and scope of the government's inquiry" and "a list of witnesses in advance" so that the defense can determine which witnesses can claim legislative privilege...