Word: wide
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There was one area of protest on which a wide array of Americans could agree. In October, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey advised the nation's 4,081 draft boards to strip deferments from students and others who interfere with the draft. Since then, Congressmen, judges and university presidents, including Yale's Kingman Brewster and Columbia's Grayson Kirk, have protested the decision. Kirk even suspended on-campus recruiting by the armed services pending a reversal of Hershey's harsh decree. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Kennedy last week said the new procedure would make draft boards...
...Yogurt. Through some deft last-minute maneuvers, Archbishop Makarios, the island's bearded President, managed to sidestep some of the immediate consequences of the settlement. Under the agreement, the Turks and Greeks called on him to disband his 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard and to grant wide police powers to the 4,000 U.N. peace-keeping troops stationed on Cyprus. Fearing an encroachment on Cyprus' sovereignty, Makarios replied that he wanted the Security Council to endorse the truce package before he finally acted. That could mean never-since France and the Soviet Union oppose peace-keeping...
...match the mature emotion of Ingrid Bergman's oft-praised Joan in Maxwell Anderson's stage and movie versions or the mystical intensity of Julie Harris in Jean Anouilh's The Lark. She settled instead for her own ability to move between ingenuous youth and wide-eyed fanaticism as the script demanded. The sight and sound of her snapping the weakling Dauphin (Roddy McDowall) into action-"I shall dare, dare, and dare again, in God's name! Art for or against me?"-was a remarkable demonstration of her stage presence...
Since typecasting can be as stultifying for musicians as for actors, De Larrocha is beginning to grow uneasy about her near-total identification with Granados and Spanish musical nationalism. When she started playing at the age of two, "first it was Bach and Mozart and the wide range of the European repertory-the necessary base." Now she would like to touch that base more often in her performances, thereby securing her already considerable claim to international stature...
Frank Sampson, a lecturer in the Social Relations Department and a member of the committee which drafted the resolution, said that Hershey's statements have brought "wide-spread criticism from people not only concerned with Vietnam...