Word: narrowed
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WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT by Vadim Frolov; translated by Joseph Barnes (Doubleday, $3.95). A Russian adolescent with the universal problems of youth-girls, school, drink and parents-struggles against narrow-minded, evasive adults in this more-adult-than-usual young peoples' novels...
...have the point of Aesop's mice-belling-the-cat fable [Nov. 29] exactly backwards, I think. If the fable really offered "the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert," as you suggest, the mice would have to be narrow-gauge experts at something. But what? Certainly not cats, bells, belling nor, on the evidence, any other form of mouse defense Far from being "assembled experts," the young mice are obviously ill-informed brainstorm-ers-generalists of the most shallow kind-glibly tossing out solutions to a problem they don't begin to understand. The old grey...
...giant. He seemed likely to topple a strong party in power, a rare event in Latin America. Caldera's lead at week's end over Action Candidate Gonzalo Barrios was razor-slim: 40,000 votes with 400,000 yet to be counted. Yet election officials predicted a narrow Caldera victory, although one in which he would have to form a co -alition government...
Reading Lists. One of the commonest mistakes of the novice is to assemble a single all-inclusive reading list for distribution at the course's first meeting. Rather the reading should be divided among at least a dozen cheaply rexographed handouts, each covering a narrow topical subdivision of the course's main theme, each to be deposited inconspicuously on a chair or radiator or, better yet, floor, at such time as you have effectively done with the subject matter contained therein...
...varsity swimming team will try to avenge last year's narrow loss to Army when it goes against the Cadets in the Crimson's second meet of the season at West Point today...