Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights," he felt, "could not be obtained in the requisite lattitude." Far better to avoid specific guarantees and let rights evolve with the passage of time. For a bill of rights would in essence be cannon fodder for people such as Bork, who could use it to restrict the scope of the people's rights...
...operation was not impressive in scope or execution, but it certainly took the prize for gall. With 30 invited foreign journalists looking on, the Iranian navy last week sent six ships and six U.S.-made helicopters into the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman to search for, of all things, mines. Iran itself is widely assumed to have put them there. After five days the Iranians declared they had exploded four of the devices. "Our mission is to sweep the area of mines," an Iranian commander said with a straight face. "We have no idea who planted them...
...troubles these units have experienced raise questions about whether the Pentagon ever can -- or should -- develop a covert operations and intelligence capacity to handle paramilitary missions that are beyond the scope of the civilians in the CIA. In some form there may be a legitimate need for secret, specially trained units to operate in behalf of approved U.S. foreign policy goals. Looking back on the secret operations he helped to begin, General Meyer, who retired as Army Chief of Staff in 1983, muses, "I think the lesson is that whatever kind of operation we conduct needs to have oversight...
...then along came Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus redefined and reduced the scope of the discipline. Says Martin: "As I studied the history of philosophy, the quest for ultimate truth became less important to me, and by the time I got to Wittgenstein it seemed pointless. Then I realized that in the arts you don't have to discover meaning, you create it. There are no rules, no true and false, no right and wrong. Anyway, these were the musings of a 21-year-old kid." A 21-year-old kid who was ready...
...cares?) But it left behind a small number of masterpieces, some of which are in this show. Neoexpressionism also left behind a quantity of unresolved questions, such as its degree of aesthetic success and its relation to American abstract expressionism, that are scarcely broached in the catalog. Given the scope of its subject, "Berlinart" is only a sketch. One can imagine half a dozen more focused shows spun off from it. But it is certainly worth seeing for its own sake...