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...good grounds for optimism about the future. Regimentation works up to a point but then becomes counter-productive. Modern economics, in particular, have become so immensely complex and so interdependent that they can no longer be effectively run from a single center. They wither unless they allow some scope to free initiative...
...said yesterday the department's scope was strictly limited to preventing sexual harassment within the department...
...role of the Houses continues to be worked out. Most recently, the two-year-old student-faculty Committee on Housing has addressed the difficult questions of the Houses scope and importance...
...Bernardin, the American Catholic hierarchy may have found a leader with enough personal appeal to gain a hearing among both liberals and conservatives for the belief that all issues relating to "the sanctity of life" belong together. The scope of the issues is growing: U.S. abortions now total 1.5 million a year, 1,270 convicts are waiting on America's death rows, and the nuclear arms race is escalating...
...opera of such ambition and scope, coming as it does late in the composer's life, naturally recalls a similar religious epic, Parsifal. Like Wagner's valedictory, Saint François is a spacious work of musical architecture, a cathedral in sound that generates a sense of timelessness or, more precisely, of time suspended. It unfolds at a stately pace, illustrating episodes from the life of the saint (the preaching to the birds, the visitation by an angel, the receiving of the stigmata), animated by the whole range of Messiaen's musical vocabulary. Strong, sharply defined motifs...