Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symposium, the Center for European Studies sponsored a conference on feminism whose topics included "Varieties of Feminisms." The pluralism is crucial. Feminism has come a long way from its associations of militant castration tactics and aesthetics of neuterdom; the term itself is an outdated one which cannot encompass the scope of cultural impact its present activity implies...
...when Belknap/Harvard University Press published the first volume (A-C) of his unique Dictionary of American Regional English, its 1,056 pages bulging with bits of vernacular from A, as in a-coming, to czezski, the word around old Chicago for a Czech or Bohemian (also butchsky). In its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction, largely by the homogenizing influence of television...
...father about mental illness elsewhere in the family, and Stanley opines that ex-Wife Nowell "is a bit mad." He explains, "Her sense of other people's not good. They can be sweet to her, and they can be foul to her, and that's about as much scope as they've got." The doctor puts another question: "Would you say, would you assent to the proposition that all women are mad?" Stanley replies, "Yes. No, not all. There are exceptions, naturally...
...Marshal Ye Jianying, 86, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party Politburo and vice chairman of the party's military commission, continue to command a following in the military establishment. While they accept the reforms, they are said to harbor some doubts about their pace and scope. Among the most formidable of the pragmatists' adversaries is Chen Yun, a central planner who masterminded the Soviet-style economic programs of the '50s. He is said to believe that the reforms can work only if they are kept within a tight socialist structure. If the Chinese economy...
...Endowment for Divestiture, perhaps better than any other wing of the divestment movement, has captured the new, more moderate tone of campus activism and new goal of broadening the political scope of the movement. Since its founding three years ago, the Endowment, a fund that will not be given over to the University until it divests, has gained hundreds of active supporters. The Endowment is designed as an alternative to the traditional Class Gift campaign, where graduating seniors are asked to donate money to the University...