Word: scope
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Singer's stories and novels are varied in scope and focus. The Magacian of Lublin is a bittersweet variation on the theme of the Wandering Jew; Satan in Goray deals with the orgiastic response to a false messiah in seventeenth-century Poland, while stories like "Short Friday" celebrate domesticity and the simple virtues: But perhaps Singer's masterpiece of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool." provides the most tender display of his virtuoso talent. In a world which places a premium on wisdom, Singer's hero is the fool, the one who receives goat turds instead of sweets. The simpleton...
Neither resolution will entail a major outlay of capital as other resolutions might have nor will they restrict the scope of GM's present or future activities...
...Warning. In the future, Blair, together with his Swedish and Russian counterparts, hopes to develop a global warning system to detect pollution. Before their plan is presented at the U.N. World Conference on Environment in 1972, Blair plans to test a prototype station. The system's scope will appear only as a vast number of small details are analyzed. The ability of a spider to spin a web, for example, can be affected by air pollution; mosses, which accumulate lead from the environment, are a good measure of lead pollution. In effect, the system will be analogous...
Although the main purpose of the orchestra will continue to be the playing, performing, and enjoying of serious music, Dr. Yannatos is interested in broadening the scope of the orchestra beyond the Harvard community to include the Cambridge community. Perhaps this new direction will involve a series of concerts in the area or perhaps benefit concerts for various local organizations...
Socialism cannot exist if there is not a change of heart bringing about a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both of an individual nature in societies in which socialism has been constructed or is being constructed; of a world scope in relation to all the people who suffer from imperialist oppression...