Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both on Broadway and in the adulterated movie version is ineradicable, and we are not likely to see it bettered. Fred Gwynne, whose long-stage career since his undergraduate Harvard days has been largely devoted to comedy, here proves to be a surprisingly capable Big Daddy. He manages to encompass the role's vulgarity, shrewdness and compassion. Only when he gets to hollering at the end of the second act does he become unintelligible...
...skills demonstrated by the Harvard team in winning this championship encompass qualities very different from the debater's stereotyped image as a William F. Buckley-type of verbal gymnast. Instead, academic debate has been evolving toward emphasis on such scholarly values as thoroughness of research and analytic depth. Although presentation is still important, academic debate today is much more a practical exercise in the techniques of evaluating public policy than a contest in rhetorical and persuasive skills. Ideally, tournament debate may be viewed as a laboratory in which alternative ideas generated by the social sciences are subjected to the test...
...Independence and championed the Louisiana Purchase. He founded the University of Virginia and built Monticello. Yet Jefferson the man remains an extraordinarily elusive and ambivalent figure. Historian Dumas Malone, one of the most acute Jeffersonists, ruefully wrote: "I flattered myself that some time I would fully comprehend and encompass him. I do not claim that I have yet done so, and I do not believe that I or any other single person...
...those interested in organized touring, the Charles River Wheelmen have rides almost every weekend and will provide a wealth of good advice. The Wheelmen encompass the full range of riders, from weekend daytrippers to international Tourists familiar with the most exotic of places...
...made of "other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"? The phrase was a compromise arrived at by the founding fathers after considerable debate, but it was only dimly understood then-or since. Not long after the phrase was incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, the British, who invented it to encompass both criminal acts and behavior that tended to undermine a government's integrity, discarded it. The impeachment provision led an exasperated Tocqueville to complain: "Nothing can be more alarming than the vagueness with which political offenses are described in America...