Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem with Hot Streets is its narrow focus on love and the loss of love as song subjects. Only the fact that Chicago can do a love song in a great variety of styles and patterns--from slow and moody, to light and airy, to classic bop-bop-bop hard rocking--saves the album from an over-specialization of theme. Still, one wishes they would throw in a few of the political songs they once did, before the '70s musical paradigms ruled out everything but immediate gratification as valid musical topics...
Those who have denied Cheever this stature argue that his characters are too narrow and too much of a piece, that their sheltered lives yield up only hothouse malaise or gilded exaltations. Such complaints put Cheever in excellent company; the work of such different writers as Jane Austen and Henry James has suffered and easily endured similar cavils...
AMHERST, Mass.--It had to happen. It was just a matter of time. On the practice field this week. On the team bus as it weaved its way past the foliage buffs taking advantage of the Indian Summer afternoon along western Massachusetts' narrow back roads. It was a feeling. You knew that this was THE game...
...four women agreed that section leaders cause the greatest problems. These women, older than most of the section people who give them their grades, see many of them as narrow individuals, inundated with academia. Susanna's darkest hour came during her freshman year in biology class. Her section leader was explaining how wonderful were all the new machines that aid childbirth. Susanna "just started tentatively trying to talk about how I have had a kid and I hadn't wanted any machines around and it was very important to me to expose myself in some way to the furies...
These new moves may help, but, they are not likely to narrow the wide gap by very much. At first, the Administration had hoped that the cheaper dollar would lift U.S. exports, and to a very limited degree it has done so. Nonetheless, two problems continue to bedevil U.S. trade...