Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breadth of the Advisory Committee's mandate is not yet clear. Lee said last night that he hoped the committee "would serve as ?place for the exchange of information." but added that, "this isn't going to be a committee that's going to meet every week. I don't have any neatly-packaged agenda. and the President hasn't provided me with...
...later films in terms of guilt and cleansing. For Wood Hitchcock's plots implicate his characters in some immoral action, often a murder, and then let them make restitution. Overcoming a psychological paralysis of spirit and action that characterizes guilty men. Hitchcock's characters increase their moral breadth through their confrontation with their capacity for evil. At the same time Hitchcock involves his audiences in the guilty action or in condemnation of the guilty man, then makes them reconsider this endorsement. Wood's structural analysis explains the end to which Hitchcock manipulates his audiences' responses...
...number of prose cutions for fornication and lascivious carriage had dropped from 1,048 to 349, and the number of convictions from 790 to 169. "We hardly ever make a mor als arrest any more," said New Haven Police Chief James Ahern. Even so, the breadth of the old laws invited ar bitrary interpretation and unequal en forcement. All that was needed to prove lascivious carriage, for example, was some sign of sexual activity. "Oh, you know - rumpled sheets, both of them in a state of undress - that sort of thing," said one policeman. The police also found lascivious carriage...
...young will surely make his way later on." The assessment was overly modest. In a career spanning three generations, Backhaus won acclaim for his masterful interpretations of virtually all the great composers. But his deepest dedication was to Beethoven, whose sonatas he played with great clarity of style and breadth of emotion. He gave his last concert in Ossiach, Austria, just a week before his death, and though the frail old man nearly fainted at one point, he continued to play. "Music," he told friends afterwards, "has always been my best therapy...
Missed Drama. For the zealous reader interested in a genuine perspective, Jacob Burckhardt's masterpiece, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, published a century ago, is still unmatched for breadth and depth. Prescott's anecdotal effort does not bear comparison with it. Playing Leonard Lyons to the age, Prescott not only misses the central drama but often seems to substitute bizarre performance for more illuminating characterization. Perhaps it is simply that there are too many characters: in a book that revolves around famous families, there are no fewer than 29 d'Estes, 23 Sforzas, 23 Gonzagas...