Word: narrowed
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ROTC enrollment jumped. Polls showed that a narrow majority of students now favored intervention. President Conant became more and more open in his calls for American action. The Corporation cleared the way for shorter degree programs. And, in the fall of '41, a few months before the U.S. declared war on the Axis powers, Math. A was suddenly the College's most popular course...
...this function. Ideas must cross-fertilize across arbitrary groupings, and ultimately to communicate those ideas effectively you need to movement, not just words and pieces of paper. When people live in isolation they are in danger of becoming distorted by their own interests, their approach to life may be narrow, prejudiced. People who are exposed to others, to different ways of life than their own, are going to generally behave better in terms of their fellow man. The "in-and-outer," then, should have a unique capability to combat parochialism and to integrate diverse effort...
Nathan M. Pusey, LL.D., president of Harvard University. Striving to narrow the breach between the intellectual com munity and the body politic...
...often Mumford sounds like a narrow literary intellectual, or he ignores obvious holes in his theories. It is provincial today to say "language is the great container of culture." What about other forms of communication-music? painting? mathematics? Mumford describes kings as the first technological totalitarians-but tends to forget that kings could rule only from bases of commonly held beliefs and aspirations. How does Mumford know that "mil lennia passed [after Paleolithic man] before man would take the life of his own kind in cold blood...
Such folksy Texas tales are a delightful leavening in this book, squeezed in between recipes for red corncob jelly and descriptions of what it is like to shoot the narrow, roaring rapids on the Rio Grande. After 20 books (Beyond the High Himalayas, A Wilderness Bill of Rights), Author Douglas has proved that he is a more beguiling travel writer and a far more gifted naturalist than one expects from an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This account of his meanderings through the wilderness areas of Texas has one major flaw: the Justice gives such a fascinating picture...