Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shapely, who instituted the first graduate School of Astronomy in this country shortly after taking office, ahs watched his trust grow from a small Summer House Hill station and a run-down observation post at Arequipa, Peru, to a vast net-work of the most modernly equipped outposts, situated for complete, continuous observation of all the heavens, and planned to cover the many divergent phases of modern Astronomy...
Event the best talent must fall short when spread as thinly as this. Perhaps the greatest inadequacy lies in the division of international relations, where only a vast expansion in personnel and budget will equip the proposed regional government-studies project. Here the University has fallen into a secondary position while Columbia and Cornell have added this vital training to their curricula. Men who attempt to draw any sort of preparation for the Foreign Service or other overseas opportunities find this gap in their undergraduate studies a definite obstacle...
...Good Will has been admired from a safe distance by many, praised to the skies by a few, actually read in its entirety by still fewer. It stands as a monument to the almost incredible industry and endurance of Novelist Romains and his readers. A vast, inchoate panorama, as broad as all Europe and 25 years long, its net effect is more nearly that of a giant notebook than of a novel...
Borkman (Victor Jory) had had a vast, almost visionary, lust for power; and to get it, he gave up love. Yet he failed, for all that-he overreached himself, went to prison, embittered his success-worshiping wife, emerged a pariah who for eight years shut himself up, futilely nursing his grandiose dream. When his wife's sister-the woman he loved and should have married-comes, herself dying, to reproach yet try to reshape him, she is too late. Leaving his house with her, Borkman dies of "the cold...
Zweig has two explanations for the vast productivity of the squat, ugly writer who became the acknowledged master of the 19th Century realistic novel. One was Balzac's feverish lust for power. "If the opportunity had offered, Balzac might equally well have become a businessman or a slave-dealer, a speculator in real estate or a banker. It was mere chance that directed his genius into the channel of literature...