Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medicine has had profound effects upon the practice of medicine. First, it has encouraged specialization by the physician, and according to the Coggeshall report the choice of over 88 per cent of new physicians is to enter specialized practice. The reason is obvious. It is far easier to encompass a special field of medicine than the totality of medical knowledge, and there is the opportunity to make an effort to keep up with advances in the field...
...deprived and backward countries of the world-the "hungering half of the human race," whose "mounting frustrations are likely to fester into eruptions of violence and extremism." Said McNamara: "Security is not military hardware-though it may include it. Security is not traditional military activity-though it may encompass it. Security is development. If security implies anything, it implies a minimal measure of order and stability...
...there is no agreement about the type of reform needed. Some wish to abolish the draft altogether, replacing it with either a professional army or nothing at all. Others support the concept of universal service, which would encompass a whole range of military and non-military programs. While such "total" solutions have their merits, discussion of them should be postponed. Abolition of the draft and universalization of the draft would both require truly massive bureaucratic alterations. Congress would understandably hesitate to ask such changes from a military establishment already occupied with other matters. The Selective Service System should be reformed...
...fingers, whose tips are cushioned from years of "cleaning the piano's teeth," are spatula-shaped; the all-important little finger is as long as the index finger, which is just a shade shorter than the middle finger. Thus, with the extension of his long thumbs, he can encompass a twelve-note spread on the keyboard. Most pianists are happy if they can handle a tenth...
Patrick White is such a confident contortionist. His double-spiraled mandala is the Hindu symbol of totality embedded in a glass marble, and his vast pretension is to spin out this bauble to encompass all human life in the person of its owner-an Australian half-wit half-man living in a suburb of Sydney...