Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More. For Cranko, 37, a spare, gentle man of steely determination, the festival was one more step toward realizing his vision of expanding the horizons of his company "to encompass and incorporate all known dance forms and then add some more." A native of South Africa, Cranko first became hooked on ballet while working as a puppeteer in Cape Town, soon pulled other strings to land a job in 1947 with London's Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet as a dancer and sometime choreographer. Five years later, critics were calling him "the young hope of British choreography." Later...
...registered equally on his retina. In the eight years between Morning on the Oise and Field in June, Daubigny traded the traditional depth of his predecessors for the surface impact of red poppies. Eventually, even such panoramas were replaced by the narrower vision that the eye can encompass without moving...
With today's model, it is no longer necessary to sit in cramped quarters for a specific time. Improved and enlarged to encompass the continent, the big machine works on its subjects continuously, day and night. From innumerable screens and stages, posters and pages, it flashes the larger-than-life-sized images of sex. From countless racks and shelves, it pushes the books which a few years ago were considered pornography. From myriad loudspeakers, it broadcasts the words and rhythms of pop-music erotica. And constantly, over the intellectual Muzak, comes the message that sex will save...
...nights; but since women are restricted to the ground floor, parietals in the fraternity houses are useful chiefly for the "wild parties" of Dean Monro's famous formulation. In the dormitories, on the other hand, hours run to 7 Sunday through Thursday, 11 Friday, and midnight Saturday, and permissions encompass students' suites as well as downstairs living rooms...
...initial scene is the wedding of Kay Strong, one week after "the group" graduates from Vassar. The final scene is Kay's funeral, seven years later (the original plan was to have the book encompass 20 years). The neatness of this framework is deceptive; the intervening story is not ordered, but chaotic in the extreme...