Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manufacturing radar in Los Angeles, television sets in West Germany, shock absorbers in The Netherlands and radios in Zimbabwe, and is helping Egypt to rebuild Cairo's water-treatment system. ITT last year dropped its original name, International Telephone & Telegraph, because it gives no hint of the company's scope...
...Sorvino) offer little understanding or support for their daughter after an earlier attempt to kill herself. Rick's father (Len Cariou) puts undue pressure on the boy to do well in school; his mother (Ellen Burstyn) is obliviously wrapped up in her work with foreign-exchange students. In the scope and ferocity of its family suffering, Surviving approaches the proportions of a Greek tragedy. Unfortunately, it lapses into bathos in the final hour, as the bereaved parents wade through scenes of guilt and recrimination that Medea might have found excessive...
While the level, scope and quality of our programs would suggest an agency of much larger capacity, the Foundation is a small, part-time secretary, and three part-time student employees. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources or staff to canvass the University. Our students assistants, secretary, and I will generally contact invitees by telephone, espcially when our honoree gives us short notice of an arrival date or changes the date of the visit altogether. No doubt we will miss some interested students and faculty members in our guest selection for certain events. But in due course we hope...
...Page's The Glenn Gould Reader (Knopf; $20) is wider in scope. A collection of some 70 speeches, magazine articles, book reviews, radio broadcasts and record-liner notes, it displays Gould's controversial musical perspicacity in such essays as Data Bank on the Upward-Scuttling Mahler and Hindemith: Will His Time Come? Again?. An accomplished parodist, Gould mocks Arthur Rubinstein's kiss-and-tell autobiographies in Memories of Maude Harbour: "I resolved to address every note of my performance to her and her alone and to inquire into the country's statutory-rape provisions at intermission." Gould even gleefully assaults...
...Leonardo was the greatest artist in the world." So begins Leonardo da Vinci, by A. & M. Provensen (Viking; $14.95). "He was also an astronomer, an architect, and an engineer who made hundreds of inventions." Granted, but how can a child be shown the breadth and scope of a genius five centuries removed? The Provensens have performed the impossible, and they have done it in twelve pages. Their solution is worthy of Leonardo himself: a popup book designed to show a movable church, a flying machine, a winged man, engineering and anatomical studies, a three-dimensional model of the heavens...