I narrowed the scope to novels written for adults, even though that meant losing King Lear on the moor and Bartholomew in the oobleck, not to mention a whole lot of wonderful weather in poetry: T. S. Eliot's cat-like fog, Wallace Stevens's "mind of winter," Emily Dickinson's snow that "sifts from leaden sieves," and — the most painful cut — the sublime cold in Auden's "Elegy for Yeats".
I narrowed the scope to novels written for adults, even though that meant losing King Lear on the moor and Bartholomew in the oobleck, not to mention a whole lot of wonderful weather in poetry: T. S. Eliot's cat-like fog, Wallace Stevens's "mind of winter," Emily Dickinson's snow that "sifts from leaden sieves," and the most painful cut the sublime cold in Auden's "Elegy for Yeats".
84 Our review is also limited in scope to studies written in the English language.
In academia, once the fieldwork is done, "there is far more scope afterwards to spend time to write the reports and look at the results".
At Yale he was an assistant to August Wilson, whose 10-play, 10-decade cycle about the African-American experience was among the inspirations for Mr. McCraney to write with ambitious scope.
The place offered, he writes, "unlimited scope to the imagination of a teenage boy".
Little wonder, then, that groups such as Action on Elder Abuse, Mencap and Scope wrote to peers last year opposing proposed changes to the current law.
"In addition, we are extremely concerned that the current operation lacks measurable goals, benchmarks of success and a clear scope," they write.
"It is pretty early to scope this out," writes Princeton economist David Bradford via e-mail, "since there is as yet no obvious winner in the technology, or obvious timetable according to which it would be deployed".
