Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confided to his journal. "I want to be as though newborn, knowing absolutely nothing about Europe; ignoring facts and fashions, to be almost primitive. Then I want to do something very modest, to work out by myself a tiny, formal motif, one that my pencil will be able to encompass without any technique . . . Pictures will more than fill the whole of my lifetime ... it is less a matter of will than of fate...
Hanfmann said that "the significance of the show lies in showing the constructive strain in American culture that was awakened by Charles Eliot. Norton, who stressed the value of direct contact with works of art which encompass 4000 years of human experience...
...will not only deal with labor and management as separate groups, but will encompass the interaction between...
Although nominally, the lectureship is for poetry, the endowment calls for a broad definition of the word, in order to encompass the creative arts, such as music and painting, as well as literature...
...that the impetus came from a desire to 'promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' " ¶ That the foundations have an "internationalist" bias. "We find it puzzling to be called upon to defend what seems to us to be so obvious, that American scholarship should encompass other cultures and that educated Americans should know something about the world in which they live." ¶ That the foundations have placed too much emphasis on "empirical" studies and the social sciences. "The relation between empirical studies and fundamental or general principle is an intellectual issue which...