Word: encompassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singing and dancing in Lost Horizon. The word, that magic electricity in the film business, went out: somebody fresh and exciting had arrived. Soon it became time to cast the movie adaptation of Broadway's Forty Carats. What was needed was a deft comedienne who could also encompass the transformation from faceless widow to a sparkling "older woman" who carries on an affair with a 20-year-old boy. An Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps. Producer Mike Frankovich wanted Liv Ullmann-so much so that he was willing to have the part rewritten to suit her, lowering the matron...
...cannot discuss what life was like in the 1960`s or what it will be like in the 1970's without discussing what appear to be two continuing factors in American life, race and war." Bond's concern reaches far beyond the parochial needs of American blacks to encompass the quality of American foreign policy. Indeed, it was Bond's opposition to the Vietnam War that catalyzed his rise to national prominence...
...students now living off-campus, 200 of these are predicted to return if the overcrowding subsides. Classes, from large survey courses to seminars, are subscribed far beyond capacity. Numbers have doubled or tripled in the classrooms and faculty members are under intense pressure to expand themselves to encompass all their students and they find it impossible...
McGovern is probably going to lose the election, and the reason is that there are a lot more New Bedfords than there are Newtons. But beyond this probable defeat lies the failure of American liberalism today to form a philosophy broad enough to encompass the urban working class as well as the suburban elite. For the present, liberalism deals only with platitudes, not the gut concerns of people. And as such, it is doomed to a never-ending series of righteous, but inevitable, defeats...
...living world, he informed us, was composed of two parts, human and beasts. Most people mistakenly assume all anthropomorphs are human. "Beasts," he explained, perform only four functions. They sleep. They eat. They mate. They fight. There are people, he insisted, whose lives encompass no more than these four aspects. They lack genuine self-awareness and seek survival only for the sake of continuing these elementary activities...